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The  Commonwealth  of  Massachusetts 
BULLETIN  OF  THE  BOARD  OF  EDUCATION 

1913.  No.  8  WHOLE  NUMBER,  27 

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Educational  Legislation 

OF   1913 


Enacted  by  the  General  Court,  giving  Acts  and  Resolves 

with  Annotations 


Issued  by  the  Board  of  Education  August  1,  1913 


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EDUCATIONAL  LEGISLATION 

Exacted  by  the  General  Court  in  1913,  giving  Acts  and 
Resolves  with  Annotations. 


Content. 

This  pamphlet  contains  legislation  relating  to  public  educa- 
tion enacted  by  the  General  Court  during  the  session  of  1913, 
save  legislation  appropriating  money  for  specific  purposes  or  to 
meet  annual  expenditures.  The  text  of  the  acts  and  resolves  is 
followed  by  explanation  and  comment  where  these  seem  to  be 
required.     The  legislation  is  grouped  under  four  headings:  — 

I.  Acts  and  resolves  conferring  powers  and  duties  on  the 
Board  of  Education. 

II.  Acts  of  general  import  to  the  public  schools. 

III.  Special  acts  relating  to  specific  communities  or  institu- 
tions. 

IV.  Additional  legislation  of  interest  in  education. 

(For  list  of  subjects  and  pages  see  page  69  of  this  pamphlet.) 


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PART  I.  —  LEGISLATION  CONFERRING  POWERS  AND 
DUTIES  ON  THE  BOARD  OF  EDUCATION. 


COLLEGIATE   COURSES   IN  NORMAL   SCHOOL. 

Chapter  26. 

Resolve  to  direct  the  board  of  education  to  investigate  the 
advisability  of  establishing  collegiate  courses  in  normal 
schools  and  in  secondary  schools. 

Resolved,  That  the  board  of  education  is  hereby  authorized  and  directed 
to  investigate  the  advisability  and  the  probable  cost  of  establishing  in 
the  normal  schools  of  the  commonwealth,  and  in  secondary  schools  main- 
tained by  cities  and  towns,  a  curriculum  in  collegiate  subjects  leading  to 
a  degree. 

The  board  shall  report  to  the  general  court  not  later  than  the  second 
dajr  of  June,  in  the  current  year,  and  shall  accompany  its  report  with 
the  draft  of  any  legislation  which  the  board  may  recommend.  [Approved 
March  6,  1913. 

The  Board  of  Education  presented  a  report  in  accordance  with 
this  resolve,  but  made  no  recommendation  for  legislation. 

AMERICAN  FLAG. 

Chapter  61. 

Resolve  to  provide  for  an  investigation  relative  to  the  publica- 
tion  OF  A  MANUAL  UPON  THE  AMERICAN  FLAG. 

Resolved,  That  the  board  of  education  is  hereby  authorized  and  directed 
to  investigate  the  matter  of  publishing  a  book  or  manual  upon  the  Ameri- 
can flag  containing  a  history  of  the  flag  and  such  other  matter  as  the 
board  may  consider  proper,  for  the  purpose  of  furnishing  copies  to  teach- 
ers in  the  public  schools  of  the  commonwealth  and  of  directing  that  in- 
structions from  the  book  be  given  to  pupils  in  such  grades  of  the  public 
schools  as  the  school  committees  of  the  several  cities  and  towns  may 
determine.  The  board  shall  report  to  the  general  court  on  or  before  the 
fifteenth  day  of  January  in  the  year  nineteen  hunched  and  fourteen  stat- 
ing the  probable  cost  of  publishing  and  distributing  the  book,  and  mak- 
ing such  recommendations  for  legislation,  if  any,  as  it  may  deem  expedient. 
[Approved  April  21,  1913. 


AGRICULTURE,    ORDER    FOR    A    REPORT    RELATIVE    TO    THE 
TEACHING   OF. 

On  May  6,  1913,  the  Legislature  passed  the  following  order:  — 

Ordered,  That  the  Board  of  Education  be  requested  to  consider  what 
branches  of  agriculture  might  be  taught  to  families  and  by  what  methods; 
what  kinds  of  school  plants  and  facilities  would  be  required  for  such  in- 
struction; to  estimate  what  the  immediate  and  ultimate  cost  per  family 
would  be;  to  ascertain  as  nearly  as  may  be  how  many  families  would 
take  advantage  of  such  instruction  and  what  public  benefits  might  be 
expected  to  accrue  therefrom;  and  to  report  to  the  next  General  Court 
not  later  than  the  second  Monday  in  January. 

NORMAL   SCHOOL   SITES. 

Chapter  99. 

Resolve  to  provide  for  an  investigation  and  a  report  by  the 
board  op  education  relative  to  the  sites  of  normal  schools. 

Resolved,  That  the  board  of  education  is  hereby  authorized  and  directed 
to  investigate  in  regard  to  the  sites  now  occupied  by  normal  schools  in 
the  commonwealth,  especially  with  the  view  of  ascertaining  whether  or 
not  the  sites  now  occupied  by  normal  schools  are  located  advantageously 
for  the  interests  of  the  commonwealth  and  for  the  convenience  of  the 
scholars  attending  them.  The  board  is  also  authorized  to  investigate  as 
to  the  necessity  or  desirability  of  establishing  other  normal  schools  and 
as  to  the  locations  where  such  schools  should  be  established,  if  additional 
normal  schools  should,  in  the  opinion  of  the  board,  be  established.  The 
board  shall  report  the  result  of  its  investigation  to  the  general  court  on 
or  before  the  second  Wednesday  of  January  next,  together  with  any 
recommendations  for  legislation  or  otherwise  which  the  board  may  deem 
expedient.     [Approved  May  28,  1913. 

APPOINTEES  AND  EXPENDITURES  OF  THE  BOARD  OF 

EDUCATION. 

Chapter  421. 

An  Act  relative  to  the  appointees  of  the  board  of  education. 

Section  1.  Section  three  of  chapter  four  hundred  and  fifty-seven  of 
the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  nine,  as  amended  by  chapter 
two  hundred  and  eighty-two  of  the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and 
ten,  by  chapter  four  hundred  and  sixty-six  of  the  acts  of  the  year  nine- 
teen hundred  and  eleven,  and  by  chapter  eighty  of  the  acts  of  the  year 
nineteen  hundred  and  twelve,  is  hereby  further  amended  by  striking  out 
the  words  "at  equal  salaries",  in  the  fourteenth  line,  —  so  as  to  read  as 


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follows:  —  Section  3.  The  board  shall  appoint  a  commissioner  of  edu- 
cation whose  term  of  office  shall  be  five  years,  and  may  fix  his  salary  at 
such  sum  as  the  governor  and  council  shall  approve.  Said  commissioner 
may  at  any  time  be  removed  from  office  by  a  vote  of  six  members  of  the 
board.  He  shall  exercise  the  powers  and  perform  the  duties  now  con- 
ferred or  imposed  by  law  on  the  secretary  of  the  board  of  education.  He 
shall  be  the  executive  officer  of  the  board,  shall  have  supervision  of  all 
educational  work  supported  in  whole  or  in  part  by  the  commonwealth, 
and  shall  report  thereon  to  the  board,  and,  when  so  authorized  by  the 
board,  may  approve  bills  for  expenditures  from  appropriations  and  funds 
placed  under  the  direction  of  the  board.  The  board  shall  also  appoint 
two  deputy  commissioners,  one  of  whom  shall  be  especially  qualified  to 
deal  with  industrial  education.  The  powers,  duties,  salaries  and  terms 
of  offiee-of  said  deputy  commissioners  shall  be  such  as  may  be  established 
from  time  to  time  by  the  board,  but  the  board  may,  by  a  vote  of  six 
members  thereof,  remove  from  office  at  any  time  either  of  said  deputy 
commissioners.  The  board  may  be  allowed  for  rent,  salaries  of  the  com- 
missioner, the  deputies,  agents,  assistants  and  clerical  sendee,  and  for 
travelling  and  other  necessary  expenses  of  the  commissioner,  the  deputies, 
agents,  and  of  the  board  incurred  in  the  performance  of  their  official 
duties,  such  sum  as  shall  be  appropriated  by  the  general  court  annually, 
payable  out  of  the  treasury  of  the  commonwealth. 

Section  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect  upon  its  passage.  [Approved 
March  31,  1913. 

The  Board  asked  for  the  amendment  provided  by  this  act,  in 
order  that  it  might,  in  appointing  a  deputy  commissioner,  deter- 
mine the  salary  of  said  deputy  without  reference  to  the  salary  of 
the  other  deputy.  It  is  considered  by  the  Board  that  the  freedom 
thus  given  in  appointing  a  deputy  is  desirable. 

CITY  OF  FITCHBURG  AND  THE  STATE  NORMAL  SCHOOL. 

Chapter  662. 

An  Act  to  authorize  the  commonwealth  to  convey  a  parcel  op 
land  in  exchange  for  land  belonging  to  the  city  of  fitch- 
BURG. 

Section  1.  For  the  purpose  of  straightening  and  improving  parts  of 
North  and  Pearl  streets  in  the  city  of  Fitchburg,  the  commissioner  of 
education  is  hereby  authorized,  in  the  name  and  behalf  of  the  common- 
wealth, to  convey  to  the  city  of  Fitchburg  a  certain  parcel  of  land  situated 
on  the  northerly  side  of  said  Pearl  street  and  on  the  northwesterly  side 
of  said  North  street,  containing  fifty-three  hundred  and  seventeen  square 
feet  of  land,  more  or  less,  and  delin<  ated  upon  a  plan  entitled  "Plan  show- 


ing  proposed  changes  at  junction  of  North  St.  and  Pearl  St.,  Fitchburg, 
Mass.,  Oct.  1912.  Scale  1  in.  40  ft.",  to  be  recorded  with  the  conveyance 
of  these  premises  in  the  registry  of  deeds  for  the  northern  district  of  the 
county  of  Worcester.  In  consideration  of  this  conveyance  the  city  of 
Fitchburg  is  to  convey  to  the  commonwealth  a  certain  parcel  of  land 
situated  on  the  southeasterly  side  of  said  North  street,  containing  nine 
hundred  and  fifty-six  square  feet  of  land,  more  or  less,  and  delineated 
upon  said  plan;  and  in  addition  the  city  of  Fitchburg  shall  on  or  before 
January  first,  nineteen  hundred  and  fourteen,  regrade  and  macadamize 
that  part  of  said  North  street  extending  from  said  Pearl  street  to  the  Pearl 
Hill  road. 

Section  2.    This  act  shall  take  effect  upon  its  passage.     [Approved 
May  16,  1913. 


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PART   II.  —  LEGISLATION   OF   GENERAL   IMPORT   TO 

SCHOOL  AUTHORITIES. 


EMPLOYMENT   OF  PUBLIC   SCHOOL   TEACHERS. 

Chapter  205. 
Ax  Act  relative  to  the  employment  of  public  school  teachers 

THROUGH  THE  BOARD  OF  EDUCATION. 

Section  1.  Chapter  three  hundred  and  ninety-nine  of  the  acts  of  the 
year  nineteen  hundred  and  six,  as  amended  by  chapter  two  hundred  and 
thirteen  of  the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  seven,  relating  to 
the  employment  of  public  school  teachers  through  the  board  of  education, 
is  hereby  repealed. 

Section  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect  upon  its  passage.  [Approved 
February  28,  1913. 

Chapter  731  of  the  Acts  of  1911  makes  provision  for  the  regis- 
tration of  teachers  with  the  Board  of  Education,  and,  conse- 
quently, provides  the  service  called  for  by  chapter  399  of  the 
Acts  of  1906. 

NAUTICAL   TRAINING   SCHOOL. 

Chapter  224. 

An  Act  to  change  the  name  of  the  Massachusetts  nautical  train- 
ing school. 

Section  1.  The  Massachusetts  nautical  training  school  shall  here- 
after be  designated  and  known  as  the  Massachusetts  nautical  school. 

Section  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect  upon  its  passage.  [Approved 
March  6,  19l3. 

PENALTY  FOR  POSSESSION  OF  OBSCENE  PRINTS,  ETC. 

Chapter  259. 
Ax  Act  relative  to  the  possession  of  obscene  prints,   pictures 

AND   ARTICLES. 

Section  twenty  of  chapter  two  hundred  and  twelve  of  the  Revised 
Laws,  as  amended  by  chapter  one  hundred  and  twenty  of  the  acts  of 
the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  four,  is  hereby  further  amended  by  in- 
serting after  the  word  "paper",  in  the  eighth  line,  the  words:  —  obscene, 


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indecent  or  impure  print,  picture,  figure,  image,  —  so  as  to  read  as  fol- 
lows:—  Section  20.  Whoever  imports,  prints,  publishes,  sells  or  dis- 
tributes a  book,  pamphlet,  ballad,  printed  paper  or  other  thing  con- 
taining obscene,  indecent  or  impure  language,  or  manifestly  tending  to 
corrupt  the  morals  of  youth,  or  an  obscene,  indecent  or  impure  print, 
picture,  figure  or  description,  manifestly  tending  to  corrupt  the  morals  of 
youth,  or  introduces  into  a  family,  school  or  place  of  education,  or  buys, 
procures,  receives  or  has  in  his  possession  any  such  book,  pamphlet, 
ballad,  printed  paper,  obscene,  indecent  or  impure  print,  picture,  figure, 
image  or  other  thing,  either  for  the  purpose  of  sale,  exhibition,  loan  or 
circulation  or  with  intent  to  introduce  the  same  into  a  family,  school  or 
place  of  education  shall  be  punished  by  imprisonment  for  not  more  than 
two  years  and  by  a  fine  of  not  less  than  one  hundred  nor  more  than  one 
thousand  dollars.     [Approved  March  8,  1913. 

ANNUAL   RETURNS   OF   SCHOOL   STATISTICS. 

Chapter  356. 

An  Act  eelative  to  annual  returns  of  school  statistics. 

Section  1.  Section  four  of  chapter  forty-three  of  the  Revised  Laws, 
as  amended  by  section  three  of  chapter  three  hundred  and  sixty-eight  of 
the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  twelve,  is  hereby  further 
amended  by  striking  out  the  word  "school",  in  the  sixteenth  line,  and 
inserting  in  place  thereof  the  word:  —  fiscal,  —  and  by  inserting  after 
the  word  "taxation",  in  the  twenty-fifth  line,  the  words:  —  and  also  the 
total  expenditures,  classified,  for  the  public  schools  during  the  school 
year  last  preceding  the  date  of  this  certificate,  —  so  as  to  read  as  follows : 
—  Section  4-  The  chairman  of  each  school  committee  shall  annually  on 
or  before  the  thirty-first  day  of  July  transmit  to  the  commissioner  of 
education  a  certificate  filled  out,  signed  and  sworn  to  by  him,  containing 
the  following  statements :  — 

First.  The  number  of  persons  between  the  ages  of  five  and  fifteen 
years,  and  the  number  of  persons  between  the  ages  of  seven  and  fourteen 
years,  residing  in  the  town  (or  city),  according  to  the  school  census  taken 
on  the  first  day  of  September,  last  preceding  the  date  of  this  certificate. 

Second.  The  number  of  persons  in  the  average  membership  of  the 
public  schools  of  the  town  (or  city),  for  the  school  year  last  preceding  the 
date  of  the  certificate,  as  determined  by  the  rules  of  the  state  school 
register. 

Third.  The  amount  of  money  raised  by  taxation  by  the  town  (or 
city),  and  expended  during  the  fiscal  j^ear  last  preceding  the  date  of  the 
certificate  for  the  support  of  the  public  schools,  including  the  wages  of 
teachers,  the  transportation  of  school  children,  fuel,  the  care  of  fires, 
schoolrooms  and  school  premises,  repairs,  supervision,  text-books  and 
supplies,  and  school  sundries  or  incidentals,  but  excluding  alterations  of 
school  buildings,  other  than  repairs,  and  construction  of  schoolhouses  and 


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contributions  for  the  support  of  public  schools  which  may  be  received 
from  the  commonwealth  or  from  other  sources  than  local  taxation,  and 
also  the  total  expenditures,  classified,  for  the  public  schools  during  the 
school  year  last  preceding  the  date  of  this  certificate. 

Fourth.  That  the  town  (or  city)  has  maintained  during  the  school 
year  last  preceding  the  date  of  this  certificate  each  of  the  schools,  as 
required  by  section  one  of  chapter  forty-two  of  the  Revised  Laws,  as 
amended  by  chapter  one  hundred  and  eighty-one  of  the  acts  of  the  year 
nineteen  hundred  and  eight,  and  by  chapter  five  hundred  and  twenty- 
four  of  the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  ten,  for  a  period  of  not 
less  than  thirty-two  weeks,  or  twenty-eight  weeks,  if  such  reduction  has 
been  allowed  under  the  provisions  of  the  aforesaid  section. 

Fifth.  That  the  town  (or  city)  has  maintained,  during  the  school  year 
last  preceding  the  date  of  this  certificate,  a  high  school,  as  required  by 
section  two  of  said  chapter  forty-two,  for  a  period  of  months, 

days,  as  stated. 

The  board  of  education  is  authorized  and  directed  to  prepare  and 
furnish  to  school  committees  suitable  forms  of  the  certificate  required 
by  this  section. 

Section  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect  upon  its  passage.  [Approved 
March  26,  1913. 

The  change  in  the  form  of  certificate  made  by  this  act  requires 
that  school  authorities-  shall  report  the  amount  of  money  raised 
by  taxation  by  the  town  or  city  and  expended  for  support  of 
public  schools  for  the  fiscal  year  of  the  town  or  city  instead  of 
the  school  year.  It  has  been  found  that  more  accurate  statistics 
can  be  given  on  this  basis. 

SUPPORT   OF   SCHOOLS,  DEFINITION   OF. 

Chapter  340. 

Ax  Act  to  change  the  definition  of  the  term  "support  of  the 

PUBLIC   SCHOOLS." 

Section  1.  Section  six  of  chapter  forty-one  of  the  Revised  Laws  is 
hereby  amended  by  inserting  after  the  word  "incidentals",  in  the  thir- 
teenth line,  the  words:  —  but  excluding  alterations  of  school  buildings 
other  than  repairs  and  construction  of  schoolhouses,  —  so  as  to  read  as 
follows :  —  Section  G.  No  such  apportionment  and  distribution  shall  be 
made  to  a  town  which  has  not  maintained  a  school  as  required  by  section 
one  of  chapter  forty-two;  or  which,  if  containing  the  number  of  families 
or  householders  required  by  section  two  of  said  chapter,  has  not  main- 
tained, for  at  least  thirty-six  weeks  during  the  year,  exclusive  of  vaca- 
tions, a  high  school  such  as  is  mentioned  therein;  or  which  has  not  made 


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the  returns  required  by  sections  five  and  six  of  chapter  forty-three,  and 
complied  with  the  laws  relative  to  truancy;  or  which  has  not  raised  by 
taxation  for  the  support  of  public  schools  which  are  authorized  or  required 
by  law,  including  the  wages  of  teachers,  the  transportation  of  school 
children,  fuel,  the  care  of  fires,  school  rooms  and  school  premises,  super- 
vision, text  books  and  supplies,  and  school  sundries  or  incidentals,  but 
excluding  alterations  of  school  buildings  other  than  repairs  and  construc- 
tion of  schoolhouses  during  the  school  year  embraced  in  the  last  annual 
returns,  an  amount  not  less  than  three  dollars  for  each  person  between 
the  ages  of  five  and  fifteen  years  resident  in  such  town  on  the  first  day  of 
September  of  said  school  year. 

Section  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect  upon  its  passage.  [Approved 
March  25,  1913. 

This  amendment  was  asked  in  order  that  the  definition  of  the 
term  "support  of  the  public  schools"  in  this  act  shall  be  the 
same  as  in  the  certificate  described  in  section  1  of  chapter  356 
of  the  Acts  of  1913. 

POSITIONS   FOR   SCHOOL   TEACHERS. 

Chapter  36S. 
An  Act  relative  to  the  obtaining  of  positions  by  school  teachers. 

Section  1.  Section  one  of  chapter  seven  hundred  and  thirty-one  of 
the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  eleven  is  hereby  amended  by 
striking  out  the  words  "and  is  a  resident  of  the  state",  in  the  fifth  and 
sixth  lines,  so  as  to  read  as  follows :  —  Section  1 .  Any  graduate  of  any 
high  school  or  normal  school  in  this  commonwealth,  or  of  any  other  school 
considered  by  the  board  of  education  to  be  of  equal  grade,  or  the  grad- 
uate of  any  reputable  college,  provided  that  such  graduate  is  a  person  of 
good  character,  may  file  an  application  with  the  board  of  education  for 
a  position  as  school  teacher  upon  the  payment  of  a  fee  of  two  dollars. 
The  application  shall  set  forth  the  name,  address,  and,  briefly,  the  experi- 
ence and  qualifications  of  the  applicant.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  board 
of  education  to  communicate  with  the  school  committees  in  the  cities 
and  towns  of  the  commonwealth,  and  with  persons  who  have  made  appli- 
cation for  a  position  as  school  teacher  in  accordance  with  the  provisions 
of  this  section,  and  to  procure  positions  for  them  so  far  as  may  be  possi- 
ble, free  of  expense  to  the  applicant  beyond  the  aforesaid  fee,  and  without 
expense  to  the  various  school  committees.  The  said  board  shall  cause 
to  be  printed  and  sent  to  school  committees  of  cities  and  towns  a  list  of 
the  applicants  for  positions  as  aforesaid,  with  a  brief  statement  of  their 
qualifications  and  experience. 

Section  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect  upon  its  passage.  [Approved 
March  2d,  1913. 


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This  amendment  permits  the  Board  to  register  teachers  from 
other  States  as  well  as  from  Massachusetts;  thus  securing  a  larger 
list  of  available  teachers  for  the  convenience  of  school  authorities 
throughout  this  State. 

PROMOTION   OF   USEFULNESS   OF   SCHOOL  PROPERTY. 

Chapter  391. 
An  Act  relative  to  the  use  of  rooms  or  halls  in  school  buildings. 

Section  1.  For  the  purpose  of  promoting  the  usefulness  of  the  public 
school  property  the  school  committee  of  any  city  or  town  may  conduct 
such  educational  and  recreation  activities  in  or  upon  school  property 
under  its  control,  and  shall  allow  the  use  thereof  by  individuals  and  asso- 
ciations, subject  to  such  regulations  as  the  school  committee  shall  estab- 
lish, for  such  educational,  recreation,  social,  civic,  philanthropic  and 
similar  purposes  as  the  committee  may  deem  to  be  for  the  interest  of  the 
community,  provided  that  no  admission  fee  is  charged  and  that  such  use 
shall  not  interfere  or  be  inconsistent  with  the  use  of  the  premises  for 
school  purposes. 

Section  2.  This  act  shall  not  apply  to  the  city  of  Boston.  [Approved 
March  28,  1913. 

This  act  encourages  the  use  of  school  property  as  social  cen- 
ters, by  authorizing  the  school  committee  to  conduct  various 
activities  in  or  upon  school  property,  and  by  further  requiring 
the  school  committee  to  permit  the  use  of  school  buildings  and 
grounds  by  individuals  or  organizations  for  entertainments  and 
exercises  of  general  interest  and  value  to  the  community. 

TRANSPORTATION   OF   PUPILS   TO   HIGH   SCHOOLS. 

Chapter  396. 

An  Act  providing  for  the  payment  by  towns  for  the  transporta- 
tion of  pupils  to  outside  high  schools. 

Section  1.  Section  three  of.  chapter  forty-two  of  the  Revised  Laws, 
as  amended  by  chapter  four  hundred  and  thirty-three  of  the  acts  of  the 
year  nineteen  hundred  and  two,  and  by  chapter  five  hundred  and  thirty- 
seven  of  the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  eleven,  is  hereby  further 
amended  by  adding  at  the  end  thereof  the  following  paragraph:  —  A  town 
of  less  than  five  hundred  families  or  householders,  in  which  a  public  high 
school  or  public  school  of  corresponding  grade  is  not  maintained,  shall, 
through  its  school  committee,  when  necessary,  provide  for  the  transporta- 


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tion  of  any  child  who  resides  in  said  town  and  who,  with  the  previous 
approval  of  the  school  committee  of  the  town,  attends  the  high  school  of 
any  other  town  or  city,  and  shall  pay  for  the  expense  of  such  transportation 
a  sum  not  exceeding  one  dollar  and  fifty  cents  per  week  during  the  time 
of  actual  attendance  of  such  child  in  the  high  school.  If  any  town  fails 
to  provide  such  transportation,  it  shall  be  liable  in  an  action  of  contract, 
to  the  parent  or  guardian  of  a  child  who  has  been  furnished  with  such 
transportation  for  such  amounts,  not  exceeding  one  dollar  and  fifty  cents 
per  week,  as  the  parent  or  guardian  has  paid  for  the  same.  A  town  which 
has  expended  for  the  support  of  its  public  schools  for  the  preceding  year 
from  the  proceeds  of  local  taxation  ,an  amount  not  less  than  four  and  less 
than  five  dollars  per  thousand  dollars  of  valuation  shall  receive  from  the 
treasury  of  the  commonwealth  one  half  of  the  amount  actually  expended 
for  transportation  under  the  provisions  of  this  act;  and  a  town  which  has 
expended  from  the  proceeds  of  local  taxation  for  the  support  of  its  public 
schools  for  the  preceding  year  an  amount  equal  to  at  least  five  dollars  per 
thousand  of  valuation  shall  receive  from  the  treasury  of  the  common- 
wealth the  whole  transportation  under  the  provisions  of  this  act. 

Section  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect  upon  the  first  day  of  July  in  the 
year  nineteen  hundred  and  thirteen.     [Approved  March  28,  1913. 

This  act  is  intended  to  encourage  the  attendance  of  children, 
resident  in  towns  not  maintaining  high  schools,  on  high  schools  in 
other  towns  and  cities.  Many  towns  before  the  passage  of  this  act 
were  already  paying  for  the  transportation  of  pupils  attending  high 
schools  in  other  places.  The  reimbursement,  in  part  or  in  whole, 
is  to  be  made  for  transportation  expenses  incurred  after  July  1, 
1913,  when  the  act  went  into  effect. 

CASES   AGAINST   CHILDREN. 

Chapter  457. 

An  Act  to  authorize  continuances  in  cases  against  children. 

Whenever  any  child  is  brought  before  any  court  for  being  neglected, 
wayward,  delinquent,  truant,  or  for  being  an  habitual  absentee  and 
habitual  school  offender  or  stubborn,  the  court  may  continue  the  case 
for  such  time  not  exceeding  six  months  for  any  one  continuance  as  shall 
seem  best  for  the  interest  of  the  child.     [Approved  April  10,  1913. 


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ATTENDANCE  OF  ILLITERATE  MINORS  ON  EVENING  SCHOOLS. 

Chapter  467. 

An  Act  to  require  the  attendance  of  illiterate  minors  between 
the  ages  of  sixteen  and  twenty-one  years  in  a  public  evening 

SCHOOL. 

Section  1.  Every  illiterate  minor  between  sixteen  and  twenty-one 
years  of  age  shall  attend  some  public  evening  school  in  the  city  or  town  in 
which  he  resides  for  the  whole  time  during  which  the  public  evening  schools 
are  in  session:  provided,  that  such  city  or  town  maintains  a  public  evening 
school.  Attendance  at  a  public  day  school,  or  at  a  private  school  approved 
for  the  purpose  by  the  school  committee,  shall  exempt  such  minor  from 
attending  a  public  evening  school.  This  act  shall  not  affect  any  existing 
laws  regarding  the  compulsory  school  attendance  of  illiterate  minors  or 
their  employment,  but  shall  be  in  addition  to  such  laws. 

Section  2.  An  illiterate  minor  who  wilfully  violates  any  provision 
of  this  act  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  of  not  less  than  five  dollars. 

Section  3.  Every  person  having  under  his  control  an  illiterate  minor 
between  sixteen  and  twenty-one  years  of  age  shall  cause  him  to  attend 
a  public  evening  school  as  hereby  required;  and  if  such  person  fails  for 
six  sessions  within  a  period  of  one  month  to  cause  the  minor  so  to  attend 
school,  unless  the  minor's  physical  or  mental  condition  is  such  as  to  render 
his  attendance  at  school  harmful  or  impracticable,  such  person  shall, 
upon  complaint  by  a  truant  officer  and  conviction  thereof,  be  punished 
by  a  fine  of  not  more  than  twenty  dollars. 

Section  4.  Whoever  induces  or  attempts  to  induce  such  minor  to 
absent  himself  unlawfully  from  school,  or  employs  such  a  minor  except  as 
is  provided  b}r  law,  or  harbors  such  a  minor  who,  while  school  is  in  session, 
is  absent  unlawfully  therefrom,  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  of  not  more 
than  fifty  dollars.     [Approved  April  10,  1913. 

The  purpose  of  this  act  is  to  make  more  effective  the  legal 
requirements  for  the  attendance  of  illiterate  minors  between  six- 
teen and  twenty-one  years  of  age  on  the  public  schools  by  pro- 
viding a  penalty  also  on  the  minor  of  a  fine  of  not  less  than  $5 
in  addition  to  that  which  may  be  imposed  upon  the  person  hav- 
ing sp.id  minor  in  his  control. 


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FREE   MEALS   FOR   SCHOOL   CHILDREN. 

Chapter  575. 

An  Act  to  authorize  cities  and  towns  to  provide  free  meals  for 

school  children. 

Section  1.  The  city  council  of  a  city  and  the  selectmen  of  a  town  may 
provide  meals  or  lunches  free  or  at  such  price,  not  exceeding  the  cost,  as 
they  may  fix,  for  children  attending  its  public  schools,  and  cities  and 
towns  may  appropriate  money  for  this  purpose. 

Section  2.  This  act  shall  be  submitted  to  the  voters  of  any  city  or 
town  at  the  municipal  election  in  any  year  if  a  petition  to  that  effect, 
signed  by  not  less  than  five  per  cent  of  the  voters,  is  filed  with  the  city 
clerk  or  town  clerk,  as  the  case  may  be,  not  less  than  one  month  before 
said  election;  and  if  accepted  by  a  majority  of  the  voters  voting  thereon 
it  shall  take  effect  in  such  city  or  town.  Otherwise  this  act  shall  not  take 
effect.     [Approved  May  2,  1913. 

CERTAIN  POLITICAL  RIGHTS   OF   SCHOOL   TEACHERS. 

Chapter  628. 

An  Act  to  provide  that  public  school  teachers  shall  not  be  re- 
stricted in  the  exercise  of  certain  political  rights. 

Section  1.  No  school  committee  shall  by  rule,  regulation  or  in  any 
other  manner  restrict  any  teacher  in,  or  dismiss  him  for,  exercising  his 
right  of  suffrage,  the  signing  of  nomination  papers  and  the  petitioning 
or  appearing  before  committees  of  the  legislature;  but  nothing  herein 
contained  shall  be  construed  as  limiting  the  power  of  a  school  committee 
so  to  restrain  any  teacher  or  dismiss  him  for  exercising  any  of  the  afore- 
said rights,  suffrage  excepted,  on  school  premises,  during  school  hours  or 
when  the  exercise  thereof  actual^  interferes  with  the  performance  of 
school  duties. 

Section  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect  upon  its  passage.  [Approved 
May  8,  1913. 

CONSTRUCTION   OF   BUILDINGS. 

Chapter  655. 

An  Act  to  revise  and  codify  the  building  inspection  laws  of  the 

commonwealth. 

Section  11.  If  a  schcolhouse  in  a  city  has  not  been  provided  with  a 
safe  and  proper  egress  or  other  means  of  escape  from  fire,  as  required  by 
this  act,  within  six  months  after  the  written  notice  provided  for  in  sec- 
tion twenty-eight  of  this  act,  the  mayor,  for  the  purpose  of  conforming 


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to  the  provisions  of  this  act  relative  to  egresses  or  other  means  of  escape 
from  fire  in  schoolhouses,  may,  upon  petition  of  one  hundred  citizens  or 
taxpayers  in  such  city,  authorize  the  expenditure  upon  such  schoolhouse 
of  not  more  than  fifteen  per  cent  of  the  cost  thereof,  payable  from  any 
money  in  the  treasury  of  that  city  which  is  not  otherwise  appropriated. 

Section  15.  No  building  which  is  designed  to  be  used,  in  whole  or  in 
part,  and  no  building  in  which  alteration  shall  be  made  for  the  purpose 
of  using  it,  or  continuing  its  use,  in  whole  or  in  part,  as  a  public  building, 
public  or  private  institution,  schoolhouse,  church,  theatre,  special  hall, 
public  hall,  miscellaneous  hall,  place  of  assemblage  or  place  of  public 
resort,  or  as  a  factory,  workshop  or  mercantile  Or  other  establishment 
and  to  have  accommodations  for  ten  or  more  employees,  and  no  building 
more  than  two  stories  in  height  designed  to  be  used  above  the  second 
story,  in  whole  or  in  part,  and  no  building  more  than  two  stories  in  height 
in  which  alteration  shall  be  made  for  the  purpose  of  using  it,  or  continu- 
ing its  use,  in  whole  or  in  part,  as  an  office  building,  dormitory,  hotel,  family 
hotel,  apartment  house,  boarding  house,  lodging  house  or  tenement  house, 
and  to  have  eight  or  more  rooms  above  said  story,  shall  be  erected,  and  no 
alteration  shall  be  made  therein,  until  a  copy  of  the  plans  and  specifica- 
tions thereof  has  been  deposited  with  the  supervisor  of  plans  of  the  build- 
ing inspection  department  of  the  district  police  by  the  person  causing  its 
erection  or  alteration  or  by  the  architect  thereof.  Such  plans  and  speci- 
fications shall  include  those  for  heating,  ventilation  and  sanitation,  as 
the  supervisor  of  plans  may  require.  Such  building  shall  not  be  so  erected 
or  altered  without  sufficient  egresses  and  other  means  of  escape  from  fire, 
properly  located  and  constructed.  The  supervisor  of  plans  may  require 
that  stairways  shall  be  enclosed,  that  they  shall  have  suitable  landings, 
that  they  shall  be  provided  with  hand-rajls,  that  egress  doors  and  windows 
shall  open  outward  and  have  approved  hardware,  that  places  of  egress 
shall  be  properly  lighted  and  designated,  and  that  proper  fire  stops  shall 
be  provided  in  the  floors,  walls,  partitions  and  stairways  of  such  building. 
He  may  make  such  further  requirements  as  may  be  necessary  to  prevent 
the  spread  of  fire,  or  its  communication  from  any  steam  boiler  or  heating 
apparatus  therein.  The  certificate  of  approval  of  the  supervisor  of  plans 
of  such  plans  and  specifications,  endorsed  with  the  approval  of  the  deputy 
chief  of  the  building  inspection  department  of  the  district  police,  or  a 
specification  of  requirements  necessary  for  compliance  with  the  provisions 
of  this  act,  set  forth  in  detail  and  so  endorsed,  shall  be  issued  to  the  per- 
son causing  its  erection  or  alteration,  or  to  the  architect  thereof,  and  a 
copy  of  the  same,  together  with  the  plans,  shall  then  be  turned  over  to 
the  inspector  in  whose  district  the  building  is  to  be  erected  or  altered, 
who  shall  enforce  the  requirements  thereof  and  supervise  such  erection 
or  alteration.  After  a  certificate  of  approval,  or  a  specification  of  re- 
quirement, has  been  issued,  no  change  shall  be  made  in  the  plans  or  speci- 


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fication,  or  in  the  building,  without  the  permission  in  writing  of  the  super- 
visor of  plans. 

Section  20.  A  building  which  is  used,  in  whole  or  in  part,  as  a  public 
building,  public  or  private  institution,  schoolhouse,  church,  theatre, 
special  hall,  public  hall,  miscellaneous  hall,  place  of  assemblage,  or  place 
of  public  resort,  and  a  building  in  which  ten  or  more  persons  are  employed 
in  a  factory,  workshop,  mercantile  or  other  establishment,  and  an  office 
building,  dormitory,  hotel,  family  hotel,  apartment  house,  boarding 
house,  lodging  house  or  tenement  house  which  has  eight  or  more  rooms 
or  in  which  ten  or  more  persons  are  accommodated  or  lodged  or  reside 
above  the  second  story,  the  owner,  lessee  or  occupant  of  which  is  notified 
in  writing  by  an  inspector  that  the  provisions  of  this  act  are  deemed  by  him 
applicable  thereto,  shall  be  provided  with  proper  egresses  or  other  means 
of  escape  from  fire,  sufficient  for  the  use  of  all  persons  accommodated, 
assembled,  employed,  lodged  or  resident  therein;  but  no  owner,  lessee  or 
occupant  of  such  building  shall  be  deemed  to  have  violated  this  provision 
unless  he  has  been  notified  in  writing  by  such  inspector  what  additional 
egresses  or  means  of  escape  from  fire  are  necessary  and  has  neglected  for 
thirty  days,  or  has  refused,  to  provide  the  same.  The  egresses  and  means 
of  escape  shall  be  kept  unobstructed,  in  good  repair  and  ready  for  use, 
and,  if  the  inspector  so  directs  in  writing,  every  such  egress  shall  be 
properly  lighted  and  provided  with  a  sign  having  on  it  the  word  "Exit" 
in  letters  not  less  than  five  inches  in  height,  and  so  made  and  placed  as 
plainly  to  indicate  to  persons  within  the  building  the  location  of  such 
egresses,  stairways  shall  have  suitable  hand-rails,  egress  doors  and  win- 
dows shall  open  outwardly,  and  women  or  children  shall  not  be  employed, 
in  a  factory,  workshop,  mercantile  or  other  establishment,  in  a  room  above 
the  second  story  from  which  there  is  only  one  egress.  The  certificate  of 
the  inspector  shall  be  conclusive  evidence  of  a  compliance  with  the  said 
requirements.  Portable  seats  shall  not  be  allowed  in  the  aisles  or  pas- 
sageways of  such  buildings  during  any  service  or  entertainment  held 
therein.  Stairways  on  the  outside  of  the  building  shall  have  suitable 
railed  landings  at  each  story  above  the  first,  accessible  at  each  story  from 
doors  or  windows,  and  such  landings,  doors  and  windows  shall  be  kept 
clear  of  ice,  snow  and  other  obstructions. 

Section  21.  The  basement  and  each  story  of  a  building  which  is 
subject  to  the  provisions  of  the  preceding  section  shall  be  supplied  with 
means  of  extinguishing  fire,  consisting  of  a  hose  attached  to  a  suitable 
water  supply  and  capable  of  reaching  any  part  of  such  basement  or  story, 
or  of  such  portable  apparatus  as  the  inspector  shall  direct;  and  such 
appliances  shall  be  kept  at  all  times  ready  for  use  and  in  good  condition. 

Section  22.  No  wooden  flue  or  air  duct  for  heating  or  ventilating 
purposes  shall  be  placed,  or  shall  remain  placed,  in  any  building  which 
is  subject  to  the  provisions  of  sections  fifteen  and  twenty  of  this  act,  and 


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no  pipe  for  conveying  hot  air  or  steam  in  such  building  shall  be  placed, 
or  shall  remain  placed,  within  one  inch  of  any  woodwork,  unless  protected 
to  the  satisfaction  of  the  inspector  by  suitable  guards  or  casings  of  in- 
combustible material. 

Section  27.  If  any  change  in  the  use  or  otherwise  shall  be  made 
upon  premises  for  which  such  certificate  has  been  issued  which  would 
render  the  certificate  void,  according  to  the  provisions  of  section  twenty 
of  this  act,  the  person  who  makes  such  change  shall  forthwith  give  written 
notice  thereof  to  an  inspector  for  the  district  or  to  the  chief  of  the  dis- 
trict police. 

Section  28.  If  an  inspector  finds  that  any  building  or  part  thereof 
which  is  subject  to  the  provisions  of  this  act  fails  to  conform  thereto,  or 
if  any  change  is  made  therein  which  would  render  a  certificate  void  accord- 
ing to  the  provisions  of  section  twenty  of  this  act,  he  shall  give  notice 
in  writing  to  the  owner,  lessee,  occupant  or  agent  in  charge  thereof, 
specifying  such  additional  provisions,  egresses  or  other  means  of  escape 
from  fire  as  in  his  opinion  may  be  necessary  to  make  it  conform  to  the 
provisions  of  this  act  and  to  obtain  a  certificate  as  aforesaid;  and  any 
such  owner,  lessee,  occupant  or  agent  in  charge  thereof,  failing  to  com- 
ply with  such  notice  for  a  period  of  thirty  days,  may  be  punished  by  a 
fine  of  not  less  than  fifty  nor  more  than  one  thousand  dollars. 

Section  39.  The  term  "miscellaneous  hall"  shall  mean  a  building  or 
part  of  a  building  containing  an  audience  or  assembly  hall  capable  of 
seating  not  more  than  four  hundred  persons,  a  society  hall,  or  a  hall  in  a 
public  or  private  school  building.  The  certificate  of  the  inspector  shall 
be  conclusive  evidence  of  a  compliance  with  the  provisions  of  this  act 
for  such  use  of  a  hall  as  he  shall  set  forth  in  detail  in  the  certificate,  and 
shall  be  conspicuously  posted  near  the  main  entrance  of  the  hall. 

Section  40.  Every  public  building  and  every  schoolhouse  shall  be 
kept  clean  and  free  from  effluvia  arising  from  any  drain,  privy  or  nui- 
sance, shall  be  provided  with  a  sufficient  number  of  proper  water  closets, 
earth  closets,  or  privies,  and  shall  be  ventilated  in  such  a  manner  that  the 
air  shall  not  become  so  impure  as  to  be  injurious  to  health.  If  it  appears 
to  an  inspector  that  further  or  different  heating,  ventilating  or  sanitary 
provisions  are  required  in  any  public  building  or  schoolhouse,  in  order 
to  conform  to  the  requirements  of  this  section,  and  that  such  require- 
ment can  be  provided  without  unreasonable  expense,  he  may  issue  a 
written  order  to  the  proper  person  or  authority,  directing  such  heating, 
ventilating  or  sanitary  provisions  to  be  provided.  A  school  committee, 
public  officer,  or  person  who  has  charge  of,  owns,  or  leases  any  such  public 
building  or  schoolhouse,  who  neglects  for  four  weeks  to  comply  with  the 
order  of  such  inspector  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  of  not  more  than  one 
hundred  dollars.     The  state  inspectors  of  health  or  such  other  officers 


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as  the  state  board  of  health  may  from  time  to  time  appoint  shall  make 
such  examinations  of  school  buildings  as  in  the  opinion  of  said  board  the 
protection  of  the  health  of  the  pupils  may  require. 

Section  41.  In  the  preceding  section,  "public  building"  shall  mean 
any  building  or  part  thereof  used  as  a  public  or  private  institution,  church, 
theatre,  special  hall,  public  hall,  miscellaneous  hall,  place  of  assemblage 
or  place  of  public  resort,  and  "  schoolhouse "  shall  mean  any  building  or 
part  thereof  in  which  public  or  private  instruction  is  afforded  to  more 
than  ten  pupils  at  one  time. 

Section  62.  This  act  shall  take  effect  on  the  first  day  of  November, 
nineteen  hundred  and  thirteen.     [Approved  May  15,  1913. 

SCHOOL  ATTENDANCE  AND  EMPLOYMENT  OF  MINORS. 

Chapter  779. 
An  Act  relative  to  school  attendance  and  to  the  employment  of 

MINORS. 

Section  1.  Section  one  of  chapter  forty-four  of  the  Revised  Laws,  as 
amended  by  chapter  three  hundred  and  twenty  of  the  acts  of  the  year 
nineteen  hundred  and  five  and  by  chapter  three  hundred  and  eighty- 
three  of  the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  six,  is  hereby  further 
amended  by  striking  out  the  said  section  and  inserting  in  place  thereof 
the  following:  —  Section  1.  Every  child  between  seven  and  fourteen 
years  of  age,  every  child  under  sixteen  years  of  age  who  does  not  possess 
such  ability  to  read,  write  and  spell  in  the  English  language  as  is  required 
for  the  completion  of  the  fourth  grade  of  the  public  schools  of  the  city  or 
town  in  which  he  resides,  and  every  child  under  sixteen  years  of  age  who 
has  not  received  an  employment  certificate  as  provided  in  this  act  and 
is  not  engaged  in  some  regular  employment  or  business  for  at  least  six 
hours  per  day  or  has  not  the  written  permission  of  the  superintendent  of 
schools  of  the  city  or  town  in  which  he  resides  to  engage  in  profitable 
employment  at  home,  shall  attend  a  public  day  school  in  said  city  or 
town  or  some  other  day  school  approved  by  the  school  committee,  dur- 
ing the  entire  time  the  public  schools  are  in  session,  subject  to  such  excep- 
tions as  are  provided  for  in  sections  four,1  five  2  and  six  2  of  this  chapter 
and  in  section  three  of  chapter  forty-two  of  the  Revised  Laws,  as  amended 
by  chapter  four  hundred  and  thirty-three  of  the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen 
hundred  and  two  and  by  chapter  five  hundred  and  thirty-seven  of  the 
acts  of  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  eleven;  but  such  attendance  shall 
not  be  required  of  a  child  whose  physical  or  mental  condition  is  such  as 
to  render  attendance  inexpedient  or  impracticable,  or  who  is  being  other- 
wise instructed  in  a  manner  approved  in  advance  by  the  superintendent 

1  See  section  4,  chapter  779,  Acts  of  1913. 

2  Sections  5  and  6  (as  amended),  chapter  44,  Revised  Laws. 


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of  schools  or  the  school  committee.  The  superintendent  of  schools,  or 
teachers  in  so  far  as  authorized  by  said  superintendent  or  by  the  school 
committee,  may  excuse  cases  of  necessary  absence  for  other  causes  not 
exceeding  five  day  sessions  or  ten  half-day  sessions  in  any  period  of  six 
months.  For  the  purposes  of  this  section,  school  committees  shall  ap- 
prove a  private  school  only  when  the  instruction  in  all  the  studies  re- 
quired by  law  is  in  the  English  language,  and  when  they  are  satisfied 
that  such  instruction  equals  in  thoroughness  and  efficiency,  and  in  the 
progress  made  therein,  the  instruction  in  the  public  schools  in  the  same 
city  or  town;  but  they  shall  not  refuse  to  approve  a  private  school  on 
account  of  the  religious  teaching  therein. 

Section  2.  Said  chapter  forty-four  is  hereby  further  amended  by 
striking  out  section  two  and  inserting  in  place  thereof  the  following:  — 
Section  2.  Every  person  having  under  his  control  a  child  as  described 
in  section  one  l  shall  cause  him  to  attend  school  as  therein  required,  and, 
if  he  fails  for  five  day  sessions  or  ten  half-day  sessions  within  any  period 
of  six  months  while  such  control  obtains,  to  cause  such  child  so  to  attend 
school,  he  shall,  upon  complaint  by  an  attendance  officer  and  conviction 
thereof,  be  punished  by  a  fine  of  not  more  than  twenty  dollars,  and  no 
physical  or  mental  condition  which  is  capable  of  correction,  or  which 
renders  the  child  a  fit  subject  for  special  instruction  at  public  charge  in 
institutions  other  than  public  day  schools,  shall  avail  as  a  defence  under 
the  provisions  of  this  or  the  preceding  section,  unless  it  shall  be  made  to 
appear  that  the  defendant  has  employed  all  reasonable  measures  for  the 
correction  of  the  condition  and  the  suitable  instruction  of  the  child. 

Whoever  induces  or  attempts  to  induce  a  child  to  absent  himself  unlaw- 
fully from  school,  or  employs  or  harbors  a  child  while  school  is  in  session, 
shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  of  not  less  than  ten  nor  more  than  fifty  dollars. 

Section  3.  Section  three  of  said  chapter  forty-four,  as  amended  by 
section  one  of  chapter  two  hundred  and  sixty-eight  of  the  acts  of  the  year 
nineteen  hundred  and  eleven,  is  hereby  further  amended  by  striking  out 
the  said  section  and  inserting  in  place  thereof  the  following:  —  Section  3. 
Every  child  shall  have  a  right  to  attend  the  public  schools  of  the  city  or 
town  where  he  actually  resides,  subject  to  the  provisions  of  section  four 2  of 
this  chapter,  and  to  such  reasonable  regulations  as  to  numbers  and  quali- 
fications of  pupils  to  be  admitted  to  the  respective  schools  and  as  to  other 
school  matters  as  the  school  committee  shall  from  time  to  time  prescribe. 
Xo  child  shall  be  excluded  from  a  public  school  of  any  city  or  town  on 
account  of  race,  color  or  religion. 

Section  4.  Section  four  of  said  chapter  forty-four,  as  amended  by 
chapter  three  hundred  and  seventy-five  of  the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen 
hundred  and  five  and  by  section  two  of  chapter  two  hundred  and  sixty- 
eight  of  the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  eleven,  is  hereby  fur- 
ther amended  by  striking  out  the  said  section  and  inserting  in  place  thereof 
the  following:  —  Section  4-     It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  school  committee 

1  See  section  1,  chapter  779,  Acts  of  1913. 
i  See  section  4,  chapter  779,  Acts  oM913. 


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of  each  city  or  town  to  provide  for  the  attendance  of  all  children  of  school 
age  resident  therein  and  to  enforce  the  same  under  the  provisions  of  section 
one  of  this  chapter.  But  if  a  child  who  is  required  by  the  pro-visions  of 
said  section  one  to  attend  school  resides  temporarily  in  a  city  or  town 
other  than  that  of  the  legal  residence  of  his  parent  or  guardian  for  the 
especial  purpose  of  attending  school  there  in  preference  to  the  place  of 
such  legal  residence,  the  said  city  or  town  may,  for  the  tuition  of  such 
child  during  the  period  of  such  attendance,  recover  from  the  parent  or 
guardian,  whether  he  resides  within  or  without  the  commonwealth,  a 
sum  equal  to  the  average  expense  per  pupil  of  such  school  for  that  period, 
unless  under  the  provisions  of  section  three  of  chapter  forty-two  of  the 
Revised  Laws,  as  amended  by  chapter  four  hundred  and  thirty-three  of 
the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  two,  and  by  chapter  five  hundred 
and  thirty-seven  of  the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  eleven,  or 
of  section  five  of  chapter  forty-four  of  the  Revised  Laws,  such  tuition  is 
recoverable  from  the  city  or  town  in  which  the  parent  or  guardian  resides. 

A  child  who  is  not  required  by  the  provisions  of  section  one  of  this  chap- 
ter to  attend  school  may,  in  the  discretion  of  the  school  committee,  be 
required  as  a  condition  of  admission  to  a  school  in  a  city  or  town  other 
than  that  in  which  his  parent  or  guardian  has  a  legal  residence,  to  pay  as 
tuition  a  sum  equal  to  the  average  expense  per  pupil  in  the  school  which 
such  child  seeks  to  enter,  the  same  to  be  paid  annually,  semi-annually  or 
at  other  periods  in  advance  as  the  school  committee  may  determine. 

For  the  tuition  in  the  public  schools  in  any  city  or  town  of  any  child 
between  the  ages  of  five  and  fifteen  years  who  shall  be  placed  elsewhere 
than  in  his  own  home  by  the  state  board  of  charity,  or  by  the  trustees  of 
the  Massachusetts  training  schools,  or  kept  under  the  control  of  either  of 
said  boards  in  such  city  or  town,  the  commonwealth  shall  pay  to  said 
city  or  town,  and  for  such  tuition  of  any  such  child  so  placed  by  the 
trustees  for  children  of  the  city  of  Boston,  or  so  kept  under  the  control 
of  said  trustees,  the  city  of  Boston  from  its  appropriation  for  school  pur- 
poses, shall  pay  to  said  city  or  town  fifty  cents  for  each  week  of  five  days, 
or  major  part  thereof,  of  attendance  of  every  such  child  in  the  public 
schools,  or,  if  the  school  committee  of  said  city  or  town  so  desires,  an 
amount  equal  to  the  average  expense  for  each  pupil  of  such  school  during 
the  preceding  year,  for  a  period  equal  to  the  time  during  which  the  child 
so  attends. 

For  the  transportation  to  and  from  a  public  school  of  any  child  whose 
tuition  is  payable  by  the  commonwealth  or  by  the  city  of  Boston  under 
the  provisions  of  this  section,  the  commonwealth  or  the  city  of  Boston,  as 
the  case  may  be,  shall  pay  to  the  city  or  town  furnishing  such  transporta- 
tion, for  each  week  of  five  days  or  major  part  thereof,  an  amount  equal 
to  the  average  amount  for  each  child  paid  by  said  city  or  town  per  week 
for  the  transportation  of  children  to  and  from  school  over  the  route  by 
which  such  child  is  conveyed.  Settlements  of  the  accounts  of  the  several 
cities  and  towns  with  the  commonwealth  and  with  the  city  of  Boston  shall 
be  made  annually  on  the  first  day  of  April,  and  the  amounts  found  clue 


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shall  be  paid  within  three  months  thereafter.  The  money  received  by 
said  cities  and  towns  under  the  provisions  of  this  section  shall  be  applied 
to  the  support  of  schools.  For  the  tuition  in  the  public  schools  in  any 
town  of  less  than  ten  thousand  inhabitants  of  any  child  between  the  ages 
of.  five  and  fifteen  years  not  theretofore  resident  in  such  town,  who  is  an 
inmate  of  an  institution  containing  more  than  six  inmates,  such  town 
may  recover  from  said  institution  the  additional  school  expense  incurred, 
as  may  be  determined  jointly  by  the  school  committee  of  said  town  and 
the  trustees  or  managers  of  said  institution,  or,  in  case  of  disagreement 
between  said  school  committee  and  said  trustees  or  managers,  as  may  be 
decreed  by  the  probate  court;  but  no  demand  shall  be  made  upon  said 
trustees  or  managers  without  a  vote  of  the  town  instructing  the  school 
committee  to  that  effect. 

Section  5.    Section  one  of  chapter  forty-six  of  the  Revised  Laws,  as 
amended  by  chapter  two  hundred  and  fifty-six  of  the  acts  of  the  year  nine- 
teen hundred  and  two,  is  hereby  further  amended  by  striking  out  the  said 
section  and  inserting  in  place  thereof  the  following:  —  Section  1.    The 
count}'  commissioners  of  each  county,  except  the  counties  of  Barnstable, 
Berkshire,  Franklin,  Hampshire,  Dukes  County  and  Nantucket,  shall 
maintain  either  separately  or  jointly  with  the  commissioners  of  other 
counties  as  hereinafter  provided,  in  a  suitable  place,  not  at  or  near  a  penal 
institution,  a  school  for  the  instruction  and  training  of  children  committed 
thereto  as  habitual  truants,  absentees  or  school  offenders.     The  county 
commissioners  of  two  or  more  counties  may,  at  the  expense  of  said  coun- 
ties, establish  and  maintain  a  union  school  which  shall  be  organized  and 
controlled  by  the  chairmen  of  the  county  commissioners  of  said  counties. 
The  chairmen  of  the  respective  boards  of  county  commissioners  of  the 
counties  of  Norfolk,  Bristol  and  Plymouth,  having  the  management  of  the 
Norfolk,  Bristol  and  Plymouth  union  training  school,  shall  each  be  paid 
the  sum  of  one  hundred  dollars  annually  by  said  counties,  respectively. 
The  county  commissioners  of  the  counties  of  Barnstable,   Berkshire, 
Franklin,  Hampshire,  Dukes  County  and  Nantucket  shall  assign  a  train- 
ing school  established  by  law  as  the  place  for  the  instruction  and  training 
of  children  committed  within  their  respective  counties  as  habitual  truants, 
absentees  or  school  offenders,  and  shall  pay  for  their  support  in  said 
school  such  reasonable  sum  as  the  county  commissioners  having  control 
of  said  school  may  determine.     For  the  purposes  of  this  chapter  the 
parental  school  of  the  city  of  Boston  shall  be  deemed  the  county  training 
school  of  the  county  of  Suffolk,  and  commitments  from  the  towns  of 
Revere  and  Winthrop  and  the  city  of  Chelsea  shall  be  to  the  training 
school  for  the  county  of  Middlesex. 

The  city  or  town  from  which  an  habitual  truant,  absentee  or  school 
offender  is  committed  to  a  county  training  school  shall  pay  to  the  county 
within  which  it  is  situated  one  dollar  a  week  toward  his  support,  and 
reports  of  the  condition  and  progress  of  its  pupils  in  said  school  shall  be 
sent  each  month  to  the  superintendent  of  schools  of  such  city  or  town; 


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but  the  towns  of  Revere  and  Winthrop  and  the  city  of  Chelsea  shall  pay- 
to  the  county  of  Middlesex,  for  the  support  of  each  child  committed  to 
the  training  school  of  said  county,  two  dollars  and  fifty  cents  a  week,  and 
such  additional  sums  for  each  child  as  will  cover  the  actual  cost  of  main- 
tenance. 

Section  6.  Section  three  of  said  chapter  forty-six,  as  amended  by 
chapter  three  hundred  and  thirty  of  the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen  hundred 
and  three,  and  by  chapter  two  hundred  and  twenty  of  the  acts  of  the  year 
nineteen  hundred  and  four,  is  hereby  further  amended  by  striking  out 
the  said  section  and  inserting  in  place  thereof  the  following:  —  Section  3. 
A  child  between  seven  and  sixteen  years  of  age  who  wilfully  and  habitually 
absents  himself  from  school  contrary  to  the  provisions  of  section  one  1  of 
chapter  forty-four  of  the  Revised  Laws,  as  amended,  shall  be  deemed  to 
be  an  habitual  truant,  and,  unless  placed  on  probation  as  provided  in 
section  seven  of  this  chapter,  may,  upon  complaint  by  an  attendance  officer 
and  conviction  thereof,  be  committed  to  a  county  training  school. 

Section  7.  Section  four  of  said  chapter  forty-six,  as  amended  by  chap- 
ter three  hundred  and  thirty  of  the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and 
three,  and  by  chapter  two  hundred  and  twenty  of  the  acts  of  the  year  nine- 
teen hundred  and  four,  is  hereby  further  amended  by  striking  out  the  said 
section  and  inserting  in  place  thereof  the  following:  —  Section  4-  A  child 
between  seven  and  sixteen  years  of  age  who  may  be  found  wandering  about 
in  the  streets  or  public  places  of  any  city  or  town,  having  no  lawful  occu- 
pation, habitually  not  attending  school  and  growing  up  in  idleness  and 
ignorance,  shall  be  deemed  to  be  an  habitual  absentee,  and,  unless  placed 
on  probation  as  provided  in  section  seven  of  said  chapter  forty-six  may, 
upon  complaint  by  an  attendance  officer  or  any  other  person,  and  convic- 
tion thereof,  be  committed  to  a  county  training  school. 

Section  8.  Section  five  of  said  chapter  forty-six,  as  amended  by  chap- 
ter three  hundred  and  thirty  of  the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and 
three  and  by  chapter  two  hundred  and  twenty  of  the  acts  of  the  year  nine- 
teen hundred  and  four,  is  hereby  further  amended  by  striking  out  the  said 
section  and  inserting  in  place  thereof  the  following:  —  Section  5.  A  child 
under  sixteen  years  of  age  who  persistently  violates  the  reasonable  regula- 
tions of  the  school  which  he  attends,  or  otherwise  persistently  misbehaves 
therein,  so  as  to  render  himself  a  fit  subject  for  exclusion  therefrom,  shall 
be  deemed  to  be  an  habitual  school  offender,  and,  unless  placed  on  proba- 
tion as  provided  in  section  seven  of  said  chapter  forty-six  may,  upon 
complaint  by  an  attendance  officer  and  conviction  thereof,  be  committed 
to  a  county  training  school. 

Section  9.  Said  chapter  forty-six  is  hereby  further  amended  by  strik- 
ing out  section  six  and  inserting  in  place  thereof  the  following:  —  Section 
6.  The  court  or  magistrate  by  whom  a  child  has  been  committed  to  a 
county  training  school  may  make  an  order  relative  to  the  payment  by  his 
parents  to  the  county  of  the  cost  of  his  support  while  in  said  school,  and 

1  See  section  1,  chapter  779,  Acts  of  1913. 


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may  from  time  to  time  revise  and  alter  such  order  or  make  a  new  order  as 
the  circumstances  of  the  parents  may  justify. 

Section  10.  Section  eight  of  said  chapter  forty-six,  as  amended  by 
section  four  of  chapter  two  hundred  and  twenty  of  the  acts  of  the  year 
nineteen  hundred  and  four,  is  hereby  further  amended  by  striking  out  the 
said  section  and  inserting  in  place  thereof  the  following:  —  Section  S. 
County  commissioners,  if  they  think  it  will  be  for  the  best  interest  of  any 
child  who  has  been  committed  to  a  county  training  school  under  their 
control,  after  notice  and  an  opportunity  to  be  heard  has  been  given  to 
the  superintendent  of  schools,  or,  if  there  is  no  superintendent,  to  the 
school  committee  of  the  city  or  town  from  which  such  child  was  committed 
to  said  school,  may  permit  him  to  be  at  liberty  upon  such  conditions  as 
said  commissioners  may  deem  best;  or,  with  the  approval  of  the  court 
which  imposed  the  sentence,  they  may  discharge  him  from  said  school; 
and  upon  such  parole  or  discharge  they  shall  make  an  entry  upon  their 
records  of  the  name  of  such  child,  the  date  of  parole  or  discharge  and  the 
reason  therefor;  and  a  copy  of  such  record  shall  be  transmitted  to  the 
court  or  magistrate  by  whom  such  child  was  committed  and  to  the  school 
committee  of  the  city  or  town  from  which  he  was  committed. 

If  such  child,  in  the  opinion  of  said  commissioners,  violates  the  condi- 
tions of  his  parole  at  any  time  previous  to  the  expiration  of  the  term  for 
which  he  was  committed  to  said  school,  such  parole  may  be  revoked.  If 
a  superintendent  of  schools  or  a  school  committee  furnishes  evidence  satis- 
factory to  said  commissioners  of  the  violation  by  a  child  of  the  conditions 
of  his  parole,  said  commissioners  shall  revoke  such  parole,  and  may  there- 
upon issue  an  order  directed  to  the  attendance  or  police  officers  of  any  city 
or  town  to  arrest  such  child  wherever  found  and  return  him  to  said  school. 
Such  officer  shall  arrest  such  child  and  return  him  to  said  school,  where  he 
shall  be  held,  subject  to  the  provisions  of  this  chapter,  for  the  residue  of 
the  term  of  the  original  sentence. 

The  expense  of  such  arrest  and  return,  so  far  as  approved  by  the  com- 
missioners, shall  be  paid  by  the  county  or  counties  maintaining  said  school. 
A  child  who  has  been  committed  to  a  county  training  school,  whether  he 
be  confined  at  the  county  training  school  or  be  on  parole  as  provided  in 
this  section,  shall  be  discharged  from  the  custody  and  care  of  such  school 
upon  his  becoming  sixteen  years  of  age.  Releases  from  the  parental  school 
of  the  city  of  Boston  shall  be  governed  by  the  provisions  of  chapter  five 
hundred  and  fourteen  of  the  acts  of  the  year  eighteen  hundred  and  ninety- 
six,  and  shall  be  made  by  the  trustees  for  children  who  shall  have  and 
exercise  the  powers  given  by  said  chapter  to  the  institutions  commissioner 
of  said  city. 

Section  11.  Section  ten  of  said  chapter  forty-six,  as  amended  by 
section  four  of  chapter  three  hundred  and  thirty  of  the  acts  of  the  year 
nineteen  hundred  and  three,  is  hereby  further  amended  by  striking  out 
the  said  section  and  inserting  in  place  thereof  the  following:  —  Section  10. 
An  inmate  of  a  county  training  school  or  of  the  parental  school  of  the  city 


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of  Boston  who  persistently  violates  the  reasonable  regulations  thereof,  or 
is  guilty  of  indecent  or  immoral  conduct,  or  otherwise  grossly  misbehaves, 
so  as  to  render  himself  an  unfit  subject  for  retention  therein,  may,  upon 
complaint  by  the  officer  in  control  of  said  school  and  conviction  thereof,  if 
under  fifteen  years  of  age,  be  committed  to  the  Lyman  school  for  boys;  if 
over  fifteen  years  of  age,  to  the  industrial  school  at  Shirley.  If  a  girl  who 
is  committed  to  the  custody  of  the  state  board  of  charity  under  sections 
three,  four  or  five  of  this  chapter,  proves  unmanageable  in  a  private  family, 
she  may  be  committed,  by  the  state  board  of  charity,  to  the  state  industrial 
school  for  girls. 

Section  12.  Said  chapter  forty-six  is  hereby  further  amended  by 
striking  out  section  thirteen  and  inserting  in  place  thereof  the  following: 
—  Section  13.  Attendance  officers  shall  inquire  into  all  cases  arising 
under  the  provisions  of  sections  one,1  two,1  three,1  four  x  and  six  of  chapter 
forty-four  and  sections  three,  four,  five  and  eight  of  this  chapter,2  or  of 
sections  sixty-one,  sixty-two,  sixty-three  or  sixty-six  of  chapter  five  hun- 
dred and  fourteen  3  of  the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  nine, 
and  may  make  complaints  and  serve  legal  processes  issued  under  the  pro- 
visions of  this  chapter.  They  shall  have  oversight  of  children  placed  on 
probation  under  the  provisions  of  section  seven  4;  of  children  suffering 
want,  to  whom  the  provisions  of  chapter  three  hundred  and  fifty-six  of 
the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  four  apply;  of  minors  licensed 
by  the  school  committee  under  the  provisions  of  chapter  four  hundred 
and  nineteen  of  the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  ten  6  and  sub- 
sequent amendments  thereof;  and  of  children  admitted  to  or  attending 
shows  or  entertainments  contrary  to  the  provisions  of  chapter  five  hun- 
ched and  thirty-two  of  the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  ten. 
An  attendance  officer  may  apprehend  and  take  to  school  without  a  war- 
rant any  truant  or  absentee  found  wandering  about  in  the  streets  or 
public  places. 

Section  13.  The  officers  hitherto  known  as  truant  officers  shall  here- 
after be  known  as  attendance  officers,  and  all  laws  now  or  hereafter  in 
force  relative  to  truant  officers  shall  apply  to  attendance  officers. 

Section  14.  (Section  1  of  chapter  831,  Acts  of  1913,  strikes  out  section 
14  of  this  chapter  and  takes  its  place.     See  page  34  of  this  pamphlet.) 

Section  15.  Said  chapter  five  hundred  and  fourteen  is  hereby  fur- 
ther amended  by  striking  out  section  fifty-seven  and  inserting  in  place 
thereof  the  following:  —  Section  57*  No  child  between  fourteen  and 
sixteen  years  of  age  shall  be  employed  or  be  permitted  to  work  in,  about 
or  in  connection  with  any  factory,  workshop,  manufacturing,  mechani- 
cal or  mercantile  establishment  unless  the  person,  firm  or  corporation 


1  See  sections  1,  2,  3  and  4,  chapter  779,  Acts  of  1913. 

1  See  sections  6,  7,  8  and  10,  chapter  779,  Acts  of  1913. 

s  See  sections  19,  20,  21  and  23,  chapter  779,  Acts  of  1913. 

<  See  section  7,  chapter  779,  Acts  of  1913;  also  section  7,  chapter  46,  Revised  Laws. 

5  This  chapter  should  be  considered  in  connection  with  section  1,  chapter  831,  Acts  of  1913. 

«  This  section  should  be  considered  in  connection  with  Section  2,  chapter  831,  Acts  of  1913. 


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employing  such  child  procures  and  keeps  on  file  accessible  to  the  attend- 
ance officers  of  the  city  or  town,  to  agents  of  the  board  of  education,  and 
to  the  state  board  of  labor  and  industries  or  its  authorized  agents  or 
inspectors,  the  employment  certificate  as  hereinafter  provided  issued  to 
such  child,  and  keeps  a  complete  list  of  the  names  and  ages  of  all  such 
children  employed  therein  conspicuously  posted  near  the  principal  en- 
trance of  the  building  in  which  such  children  are  employed:  provided, 
however,  that  children  who  are  over  fourteen  but  under  sixteen  years  of 
age  shall  be  permitted  to  work  in  mercantile  establishments  on  Satur- 
days between  the  hours  of  seven  in  the  morning  and  six  in  the  evening, 
without  such  certificate.  On  termination  of  the  employment  of  a  child 
whose  employment  certificate  is  on  file,  said  certificate  shall  be  returned 
by  the  employer  within  two  days  after  said  termination  to  the  office  of 
the  superintendent  of  schools  from  which  it  was  issued. 

Section  16.  Section  fifty-eight  of  said  chapter  five  hundred  and  four- 
teen, as  amended  by  chapter  two  hundred  and  sixty-nine  of  the  acts  of 
the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  eleven,  is  hereby  further  amended  by 
striking  out  the  said  section  and  inserting  in  place  thereof  the  following: 
—  Section  58.  An  employment  certificate  shall  be  issued  only  by  the 
superintendent  of  schools  or  by  a  person  authorized  by  him  in  writing, 
or,  where  there  is  no  superintendent  of  schools,  by  a  person  authorized 
in  writing  by  the  school  committee,  of  the  city  or  town  where  the  child 
to  whom  it  is  issued  resides  during  his  employment,  or  in  case  the  child 
resides  outside  the  commonwealth,  of  the  city  or  town  in  which  the  child 
is  to  be  employed:  provided,  that  no  member  of  a  school  committee  or 
other  person  authorized  as  aforesaid  shall  have  authority  to  issue  such 
certificate  for  any  child  then  in,  or  about  to  enter,  such  person's  own 
employment  or  the  employment  of  a  firm  or  corporation  of  which,  he  is  a 
member,  officer  or  employee. 

The  person  issuing  employment  certificates  shall  in  each  case,  before 
issuing  a  certificate,  receive,  examine,  approve  and  file  the  following 
papers,  duly  executed :  — 

(1)  A  pledge  or  promise  signed  by  the  employer  or  by  an  authorized 
manager  or  superintendent,  setting  forth  the  character  of  the  employ- 
ment, the  number  of  hours  per  day  during  which  the  child  is  to  be  regularly 
employed  and  the  name  and  address  of  the  employer,  in  which  pledge  or 
promise  the  employer  agrees  to  employ  the  child  in  accordance  with  the 
provisions  of  this  act,  and  to  return  the  employment  certificate  as  pro- 
vided in  section  fifty-seven.1 

(2)  The  school  record  of  such  child,  properly  filled  out  and  signed  as 
hereinafter  provided. 

(3)  A  certificate  signed  by  a  school  or  family  physician,  or  by  a  physi- 
cian  appointed  by  the  school  committee,  stating  that  the  child  has  been 
thoroughly  examined  by  said  physician  and,  in  his  opinion,  is  in  suffi- 
ciently sound  health  and  physically  able  to  perform  the  work  which  the 
child  intends  to  do. 

1  See  section  15,  chapter  779,  Acts  of  1913. 


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(4)  Evidence  of  age  showing  that  the  child  is  fourteen  years  of  age, 
which  shall  consist  of  one  of  the  following  proofs  of  age: 

(a)  A  birth  certificate,  or  a  duly  attested  transcript  thereof,  made  by 
a  registrar  of  vital  statistics  or  other  officer  charged  with  the  duty  of 
recording  births. 

(b)  A  baptismal  certificate,  or  a  duly  attested  transcript  thereof,  show- 
ing the  age  and  date  of  baptism  of  the  child. 

(c)  In  case  none  of  the  aforesaid  proofs  of  age  is  obtainable,  and  only 
in  such  case,  the  person  issuing  employment  certificates  may  accept  in 
lieu  thereof  a  passport  or  a  duly  attested  immigration  record,  or  trans- 
cript thereof,  showing  the  age  of  the  child,  or  other  official  or  religious 
record  of  the  child's  age:  provided,  that  it  shall  appear  to  the  satisfaction 
of  said  person  that  the  same  is  good  and  sufficient  evidence  of  the  child's 
age. 

(d)  In  case  none  of  the  aforesaid  proofs  of  age  is  obtainable,  and  only 
in  such  case,  the  person  issuing  employment  certificates  may  accept  in 
lieu  thereof  a  record  of  age  as  given  on  the  register  of  the  school  which 
the  child  first  attended  in  the  commonwealth:  provided,  that  such  record 
was  kept  for  at  least  two  years  during  the  time  when  such  child  attended 
school. 

(e)  In  case  none  of  the  aforesaid  proofs  of  age  is  obtainable,  and  only 
in  such  case,  the  person  issuing  employment  certificates  may  receive  the 
signed  statement  of  the  school  physician,  or  of  the  physician  appointed 
by  the  school  committee,  stating  that,  after  examination,  it  is  the  opinion 
of  such  physician  that  the  child  is  at  least  fourteen  years  of  age.  Such 
physician's  statement  shall  be  accompanied  by  a  statement  signed  by 
the  child's  parent,  guardian  or  custodian,  or  in  case  such  child  has  no 
parent,  guardian  or  custodian,  the  signed  statement  of  the  next  adult 
friend.  Such  signed  statement  shall  contain  the  name,  date  and  place 
of  birth  and  residence  of  the  child,  and  shall  certify  that  the  parent, 
guardian,  custodian  or  next  friend  signing  the  statement  is  unable  to 
produce  any  of  the  proofs  of  age  specified  in  this  section.  Such  state- 
ment shall  be  signed  in  the  presence  of  the  person  issuing  employ- 
ment certificates  by  the  parent,  guardian,  custodian,  or  next  friend. 
The  person  issuing  employment  certificates  may,  before  issuing  a 
certificate,  require  the  parent,  guardian,  custodian,  or  next  adult  friend 
of  the  child  to  appear  and  approve  in  writing  the  issuance  of  said 
certificate. 

Section  17.  Said  chapter  five  hundred  and  fourteen  is  hereby  fur- 
ther amended  by  striking  out  section  fifty-nine  and  inserting  in  place 
thereof  the  following:  —  Section  59.  The  school  record  required  by 
section  sixteen !  of  this  act  shall  be  filled  out  and  signed  by  the  principal 
or  teacher  in  charge  of  the  school  which  the  child  last  attended  and  shall 
be  furnished  only  to  a  child  who,  after  due  examination  and  investiga- 
tion, is  found  to  be  entitled  thereto.  Said  school  record  shall  state  the 
grade  last  completed  by  such  child  and  the  studies  pursued  in  completion 

1  Section  16,  chapter  779,  Acts  of  1913. 


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thereof.  It  shall  state  the  number  of  weeks  during  which  such  child  has 
attended  school  during  the  twelve  months  next  preceding  the  time  of 
application  for  said  school  record.  It  shall  also  give  the  name,  date  of 
birth,  and  the  residence  of  the  child  as  shown  on  the  records  of  the  school 
and  the  name  of  the  parent,  guardian  or  custodian.  In  case  it  is  found 
to  be  impossible  to  obtain  said  school  record  from  the  principal  or  teacher 
in  charge  of  the  school  which  such  child  last  attended,  the  requirement 
of  a  school  record  may  be  waived. 

No  such  school  record  shall  be  issued  or  accepted,  and  no  emplo3rment 
certificate  shall  be  granted  unless  the  child  possesses  the  educational  quali- 
fications enumerated  in  section  one  of  chapter  forty-four  of  the  Revised 
Laws  as  amended  by  section  one  of  this  act.1 

No  such  school  record  shall  be  issued  or  accepted  unless  the  child  has 
regularly  attended  the  public  schools  or  other  lawfully  approved  schools 
for  not  less  than  one  hundred  and  thirty  days  after  becoming  thirteen 
years  of  age:  provided,  however,  that  the  school  record  may  be  accepted 
in  the  case  of  a  person  who  has  been  an  attendant  at  a  public  day  school 
or  other  lawfulby  approved  school  for  a  period  of  not  less  than  seven  years, 
if  in  the  opinion  of  said  superintendent  such  person  is  mentally  incapable 
of  acquiring  the  educational  qualifications  herein  prescribed. 

Section  18.  Section  sixty  of  said  chapter  five  hundred  and  fourteen, 
as  amended  by  section  four  of  chapter  two  hundred  and  fifty-seven  of 
the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  ten,  is  hereby  further  amended 
by  striking  out  the  said  section  and  inserting  in  place  thereof  the  follow- 
ing:—  Section  60.  The  employment  certificate' required  by  this  act 
shall  state  the  name,  sex,  date  and  place  of  birth  and  the  place  of  resi- 
dence of  the  child  and  describe  the  color  of  the  hair  and  eyes  and  any 
distinguishing  facial  marks  of  the  child.  It  shall  certify  that  the  child 
named  in  such  certificate  has  personally  appeared  before  the  person  issu- 
ing the  certificate  and  has  been  examined  and  found  to  possess  the  edu- 
cational qualifications  enumerated  in  section  one  1  of  chapter  forty-four  of 
the  Revised  Laws,  as  amended  by  section  one  of  this  act,  and  that  all 
the  papers  required  by  section  fifty-eight 2  have  been  duly  examined, 
approved  and  filed  and  that  all  the  conditions  and  requirements  for  issu- 
ing an  employment  certificate  have  been  fulfilled.  It  shall  state  the  grade 
last  completed  by  said  child.  Every  such  certificate  shall  be  signed  in 
the  presence  of  the  person  issuing  the  same  by  the  child  in  whose  name 
it  is  issued.  It  shall  state  the  name  of  the  employer  for  whom,  and  the 
nature  of  the  emplojmient  in  which,  the  certificate  authorizes  the  child 
to  be  employed.  It  shall  bear  a  number,  show  the  date  of  its  issue  and 
shall  be  signed  by  the  person  issuing  it.  No  fee  shall  be  exacted  for  an 
employment  certificate  or  for  any  of  the  papers  required  by  this  act. 
Duplicate  employment  certificates  shall  not  be  issued  until  it  shall  ap- 
pear to  the  satisfaction  of  the  person  authorized  to  issue  certificates  that 

i  Section  1,  chapter  779,  Acts  of  1913. 

2  See  section  16,  chapter  779,  Acts  of  1913. 


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the  original  certificate  has  been  lost.  A  record  giving  all  the  facts  con- 
tained on  every  employment  certificate  issued  shall  be  filed  in  the  office 
issuing  the  same,  together  with  the  papers  required  by  section  fifty-eight l 
as  amended.  A  record  shall  also  be  kept  of  the  names  and  addresses  of 
all  children  to  whom  certificates  have  been  refused,  together  with  the 
names  of  the  schools  which  said  children  should  attend  and  the  reasons 
for  refusal.  All  the  aforesaid  records  and  papers  shall  be  preserved  until 
such  children,  if  living,  shall  have  become  sixteen  years  of  age.  Such 
records  and  statistics  concerning  the  issuance  of  employment  certificates 
as  may  be  prescribed  by  the  board  of  education  shall  be  kept  and  shall 
be  open  to  the  inspection  of  said  board,  its  officers  or  agents.  The  blank 
certificates  and  other  papers  required  in  connection  with  the  issuing  of 
employment  certificates  and  educational  certificates  under  this  act  shall 
be  designed  by  and  furnished  to  the  local  school  committees  by  the  state 
board  of  labor  and  industries  after  conference  with  the  board  of  educa- 
tion, and  the  approval  of  the  forms  thereof  by  the  attorney-general. 
Said  certificates  and  papers  may  bear  such  further  and  explanatory  mat- 
ter as  may  be  needed  to  facilitate  the  enforcement  of  this  act  or  to  com- 
ply with  future  legislative  requirements. 

Section  19.  Section  sixty-one  of  said  chapter  five  hundred  and  four- 
teen, as  amended  by  chapter  two  hundred  and  forty-nine  of  the  acts  of  the 
year  nineteen  hundred  and  ten,  is  hereby  further  amended  by  striking  out 
the  said  section  and  inserting  in  place  thereof  the  following:  —  Section  61. 
Whoever  employs  a  person  under  the  age  of  sixteen  years,  and  whoever 
procures  or,  having  under  his  control  a  person  under  sixteen  years  of  age, 
permits  such  person  to  be  employed  in  violation  of  the  provisions  of 
sections  fifty-six  2  or  fifty-seven  3  of  this  act,  shall  for  each  offence  be  pun- 
ished by  a  fine  of  not  less  than  ten  dollars  nor  more  than  fifty  dollars,  or 
by  imprisonment  for  not  more  than  thirty  days;  and  whoever  continues 
to  employ  a  person  under  sixteen  years  of  age  in  violation  of  the  provi- 
sions of  either  of  said  sections,  after  being  notified  thereof  by  a  school 
attendance  officer  or  by  an  inspector  appointed  by  the  state  board  of 
labor  and  industries,  shall  for  every  day  thereafter  while  such  employ- 
ment continues  be  punished  by  a  fine  of  not  less  than  fifty  nor  more  than 
two  hundred  dollars,  or  by  imprisonment  for  not  more  than  sixty  days; 
and  whoever  forges,  or  procures  to  be  forged,  or  assists  in  forging  a  cer- 
tificate of  birth  or  other  evidence  of  the  age  of  such  person,  and  whoever 
presents  or  assists  in  presenting  a  forged  certificate  or  evidence  of  birth 
to  the  superintendent  of  schools  or  to  a  person  authorized  by  law  to  issue 
certificates,  for  the  purpose  of  fraudulently  obtaining  the  employment 
certificate  required  by  this  act,  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  of  not  less  than 
ten  nor  more  than  five  hundred  dollars,  or  by  imprisonment  for  not  more 
than  one  year,  or  by  both  such  fine  and  imprisonment,    Whoever,  being 

1  Sae  section  16,  chapter  779,  Acts  of  1913. 
-  See  section  1,  chapter  831,  Acts  of  1913. 
3  See  section  15,  chapter  779,  Acts  of  1913. 


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authorized  to  sign  an  employment  certificate,  knowingly  certifies  to  any 
materially  false  statement  therein  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  of  not  less 
than  ten  nor  more  than  two  hundred  dollars. 

Section  20.  Said  chapter  five  hundred  and  fourteen  is  hereby  fur- 
ther amended  by  striking  out  section  sixty-two  and  inserting  in  place 
thereof  the  following:  —  Section  62.  Attendance  officers  may  visit  the 
factories,  workshops,  manufacturing,  mechanical  and  mercantile  estab- 
lishments, theatres,  and  places  of  public  exhibition  in  their  several  cities 
and  towns  and  ascertain  whether  any  children  are  emplo3red  therein  con- 
trary to  the  provisions  of  this  act  and  shall  report  in  writing  any  cases 
of  such  illegal  employment  to  the  superintendent  of  schools  or  the  school 
committee  and  to  the  state  board  of  labor  and  industries  or  its  authorized 
officers  or  agents.  Inspectors  appointed  by  the  state  board  of  labor  and 
industries  shall  visit  all  factories,  workshops,  manufacturing,  mechanical 
and  mercantile  establishments  within  their  respective  districts,  and  as- 
certain whether  any  children  are  employed  therein  contrary  to  the  pro- 
visions of  this  act,  and  shall  enter  complaint  against  whomever  is  found  to 
have  violated  any  of  said  provisions.  An  inspector  who  knowingly  or 
wilfully  violates  any  provision  of  this  section  may  be  punished  by  a  fine 
of  not  more  than  one  hundred  dollars. 

Section  21.  Said  chapter  five  hundred  and  fourteen  is  hereby  further 
amended  by  striking  out  section  sixty-three  and  inserting  in  place  thereof 
the  following:  —  Section  63.  An  attendance  officer  shall  apprehend  and 
take  to  school,  without  a  warrant,  any  child  under  the  age  of  twenty-one 
years  who  is  employed  in  any  factory,  workshop,  manufacturing,  mechani- 
cal or  mercantile  establishment  in  violation  of  the  provisions  of  this  act, 
or  who  is  employed  in  any  theatre  or  place  of  public  exhibition  contrary 
to  the  provisions  of  this  act,  and  such  attendance  officer  shall  forthwith 
report  to  the  police,  district  or  municipal  court  or  trial  justice  within  whose 
judicial  district  the  illegal  employment  occurs,  the  evidence  in  his  pos- 
session relating  to  the  illegal  employment  of  any  child  so  apprehended,  and 
shall  make  complaint  against  whomever  the  court  or  trial  justice  may 
direct.  An  attendance  officer  who  knowingly  and  wilfully  violates  any 
provision  of  this  section  may  be  punished  by  a  fine  of  not  more  than  one 
hundred  dollars  for  each  offence. 

Section  22.  Said  chapter  five  hundred  and  fourteen  is  hereby  fur- 
ther amended  by  striking  out  section  sixty-four  and  inserting  in  place 
thereof  the  following:  —  Section  64.  Inspectors  appointed  by  the  state 
board  of  labor  and  industries,  agents  of  the  board  of  education  and  at- 
tendance officers  may  require  that  the  employment  or  educational  cer- 
tificates and  lists  of  children  who  are  employed  in  factories,  workshops, 
manufacturing,  mechanical  or  mercantile  establishments  shall  be  pro- 
duced for  their  inspection.  A  failure  to  produce  to  any  person  author- 
ized by  this  section  who  requests  the  same  an  employment  or  educational 
certificate  or  list  required  by  law  shall  be  prima  facie  evidence  of  the  illegal 
employment  of  any  person  whose  certificate  is  not  produced  or  whose 


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name  is  not  so  listed.  A  corporation  or  other  employer,  or  any  agent  or 
officer  thereof,  who  retains  an  employment  or  educational  certificate  in 
violation  of  the  provisions  of  this  act  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  of  not 
less  than  ten  nor  more  than  one  hundred  dollars. 

Section  23.  Said  chapter  five  hundred  and  fourteen  is  hereby  further 
amended  by  striking  out  section  sixty-six  and  inserting  in  place  thereof 
the  following:  —  Section  66.  No  child  who  is  over  sixteen  and  under 
twenty-one  years  of  age  shall  be  employed  in  a  factory,  workshop,  manu- 
facturing, mechanical  or  mercantile  establishment  unless  his  employer 
procures  and  keeps  on  file  an  educational  certificate  showing  the  age  of 
the  child  and  his  ability  or  inability  to  read  and  write  as  hereinafter  pro- 
vided. Such  certificates  shall  be  issued  by  the  person  authorized  by  this 
act  to  issue  employment  certificates. 

The  person  authorized  to  issue  such  educational  certificates  shall,  so 
far  as  is  practicable,  require  the  proof  of  age  stated  in  section  fifty-eight. 
He  shall  examine  the  child  and  certify  whether  or  not  he  possesses  the 
educational  qualifications  enumerated  in  section  one  of  chapter  forty- 
four  of  the  Revised  Laws,  as  amended. x  Every  such  certificate  shall  be 
signed  in  the  presence  of  the  person  issuing  the  same  by  the  child  in  whose 
name  it  is  issued. 

Every  employer  of  such  children  shall  keep  their  educational  certifi- 
cates accessible  to  any  officer  authorized  to  enforce  the  provisions  of 
this  act  and  shall  return  said  certificates  to  the  office  from  which  they 
were  issued  within  two  days  after  the  date  of  the  termination  of  the 
employment  of  said  children.  If  the  educational  certificate  of  any  child 
who  is  over  sixteen  and  under  twenty-one  years  of  age  fails  to  show  that 
said  child  possesses  the  educational  qualifications  enumerated  in  section 
one  of  chapter  forty-four  of  the  Revised  Laws,  as  amended,  then  no  per- 
son shall  employ  such  child  while  a  public  evening  school  is  maintained 
in  the  city  or  town,  in  which  the  child  resides,  unless  such  child  is  a  regular 
attendant  at  such  evening  school  or  at  a  day  school,  and  presents  to  his 
employer  each  week  a  school  record  of  such  attendance.  When  such 
record  shows  unexcused  absences,  such  attendance  shall  be  deemed  to  be 
irregular  and  insufficient.  The  person  authorized  to  issue  educational 
-certificates,  or  teachers  acting  under  his  authority,  may,  however,  excuse 
justifiable  absence.  Whoever  employs  a  child  in  violation  of  the  pro- 
visions of  this  section  shall  forfeit  not  more  than  one  hundred  dollars 
for  each  offence,  to  the  use  of  the  evening  schools  of  such  city  or  town. 
A  parent,  guardian  or  custodian  who  permits  a  child  to  be  employed 
in  violation  of  the  provisions  of  this  section  shall  forfeit  not  more 
than  twenty  dollars,  to  the  use  of  the  evening  schools  of  such  city  or 
town. 

Section  24.  Nothing  in  this  act  shall  be  construed  to  prevent  chil- 
dren of  any  age  from  receiving  manual  training  or  industrial  education  in, 
or  in  connection  with,  any  school  in  this  commonwealth:   provided,  that 

1  See  section  1,  chapter  779,  Acts  of  1913. 


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the  same  has  been  duly  approved  by  the  local  school  committee  or  by 
the  board  of  education. 

Section  25.  Chapter  three  hundred  and  eighty-nine  of  the  acts  of 
the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  six  and  chapter  three  hundred  and  ten 
of  the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  eleven  and  all  acts  and  parts 
of  acts  inconsistent  with  the  provisions  of  this  act  are  hereby  repealed. 

Section  26.  This  act  shall  take  effect  on  the  first  day  of  September, 
nineteen  hundred  and  thirteen.     [Approved  June  18,  1913. 


CONTINUATION  SCHOOLS  AND  COURSES  OF  INSTRUCTION  FOR 
WORKING    CHILDREN. 

Chapter  805. 

An  Act  relative  to  the  establishment  and  maintenance  of  con- 
tinuation SCHOOLS  AND  COURSES  OF  INSTRUCTION  FOR  WORKING 
CHILDREN. 

Section  1.  When  the  school  committee  of  any  city  or  town  shall  have 
established  continuation  schools  or  courses  of  instruction  for  the  educa- 
tion of  minors  between  fourteen  and  sixteen  years  of  age  who  are  regularly 
employed  in  such  city  or  town  not  less  than  six  hours  per  dajr,  such  school 
committee  may,  with  the  consent  of  the  board  of  education,  require  the 
attendance  in  such  continuation  schools  or  on  such  courses  of  instruction 
of  every  such  minor  thereafter  receiving  an  employment  certificate  and 
who  is  not  otherwise  receiving  instruction  approved  by  the  school  com- 
mittee as  equivalent  to  that  provided  in  schools  established  under  the 
provisions  of  this  act.  The  required  attendance  provided  for  in  this  act 
shall  be  at  the  rate  of  not  less  than  four  hours  per  week  and  shall  be  be- 
tween the  hours  of  eight  o'clock  in  the  morning  and  six  o'clock  in  the 
afternoon  of  any  working  day  or  days.  The  time  spent  by  a  child  in  a 
continuation  school  or  class  shall  be  reckoned  as  a  part  of  the  time  or 
number  of  hours  that  minors  are  permitted  by  law  to  work. 

Section  2.  Continuation  schools  or  courses  of  instruction  as  provided 
in  section  one  of  this  act,  shall,  so  long  as  they  are  approved  by  the  board 
of  education  as  to  organization,  control,  location,  equipment,  courses  of 
study,  qualifications  of  teachers,  methods  of  instruction,  conditions  of 
admission,  employment  of  pupils  and  expenditure  of  the  money,  consti- 
tute approved  continuation  schools  or  courses  of  instruction.  Cities  and 
towns  maintaining  such  approved  continuation  schools  or  courses  of 
instruction  shall  receive  reimbursement  from  the  commonwealth,  as  pro- 
vided in  section  three  of  this  act. 

Section  3.  The  commonwealth,  in  order  to  aid  in  the  maintenance 
of  approved  continuation  schools  or  courses,  shall  as  provided  in  this 
act  pay  annually  from  the  treasury  to  cities  and  towns  maintaining  such 
schools  or  courses  an  amount  equal  to  one  half  of  the  sum  to  be  known 
as  the  net  maintenance  sum.     Such  net  maintenance  sum  shall  consist 


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of  the  total  sum  raised  by  local  taxation  and  expended  for  the  mainte- 
nance of  such  a  school,  less  the  amount,  for  the  same  period,  of  tuition 
claims  paid  or  unpaid  and  receipts  from  the  work  of  pupils  or  the  sale  of 
products. 

Section  4.  When  the  school  committee  of  any  city  or  town  shall 
have  established  a  continuation  school  or  courses  of  instruction  as  pro- 
vided in  section  one  of  this  act,  the  said  school  committee  may  require 
the  attendance,  as  provided  in  section  one  of  this  act,  in  such  continua- 
tion school  or  on  such  courses  of  instruction  of  all  minors  between  four- 
teen and  sixteen  years  of  age  residing  in  said  city  or  town  who  are  regu- 
larly employed  in  another  city  or  town:  provided,  that  the  city  or  town 
in  which  such  minors  are  employed  does  not  maintain  and  require  at- 
tendance at  a  continuation  school  or  courses  of  instruction  as  defined  in 
section  one  of  this  act. 

Section  5.  Any  minor  between  fourteen  and  sixteen  years  of  age  who 
is  regularly  employed  in  a  city  or  town  other  than  that  in  which  the  said 
minor  resides  may  attend  a  continuation  school  or  courses  of  instruction, 
as  provided  in  section  one  of  this  act,  in  the  city  or  town  in  which  such 
minor  resides.  Any  minor  attending  a  continuation  school  or  courses  of 
instruction,  as  hereinbefore  described,  in  the  city  or  town  of  his  residence 
in  preference  to  attending  such  school  or  courses  of  instruction  in  the  city 
or  town  of  his  employment,  shall  file  or  cause  to  be  filed  regularly,  at 
least  once  a  month,  with  the  superintendent,  or  his  representative  duly 
authorized  in  writing,  of  the  city  or  town  in  which  such  minor  is  employed, 
a  report  of  attendance  certified  by  the  superintendent,  or  his  representa- 
tive duly  authorized  in  writing,  of  the  city  or  town  in  which  such  minor 
is  attending  school:  provided,  however,  that  the  filing  of  such  certified 
report  of  attendance  with  the  superintendent  of  a  city  or  town  in  which 
attendance  at  continuation  schools  or  courses  of  instruction  as  defined  in 
section  one  of  this  act  is  not  compulsory  shall  not  be  required. 

Section  6.  The  employer  of  any  minor  between  fourteen  and  six- 
teen years  of  age  who  is  compelled  by  the  provisions  and  regulations 
either  of  the  school  commttee  in  the  city  or  town  in  which  such  minor 
resides  or  of  the  school  committee  in  the  city  or  town  in  which  such  minor 
is  employed  to  attend  a  continuation  school  or  courses  of  instruction  as 
defined  in  section  one  of  this  act,  shall  cease  forthwith  to  employ  such 
minor  when  notified  in  writing  by  the  superintendent  or  his  representa- 
tive duly  authorized  in  writing,  having  jurisdiction  over  such  minor's 
school  attendance,  that  such  minor  is  not  attending  school  in  accordance 
with  the  compulsory  attendance  regulations  as  defined  in  section  one  of 
this  act.  Any  employer  who  fails  to  comply  with  the  provisions  of  this 
section  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  of  not  less  than  ten  nor  more  than  one 
hundred  dollars  for  each  offence. 

Section  7.  The  superintendent  of  schools  having  jurisdiction,  or  a 
person  authorized  by  him  in  writing,  may  revoke  the  age  and  schooling 
or  employment  certificate  of  any  minor  who  is  required  by  the  provisions 


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of  this  act  to  attend  a  continuation  school  or  courses,  if  such  minor  fails 
to  attend  such  school  or  courses  as  provided  by  this  act. 

Section  8.  This  act  shall  take  effect  on  the  first  day  of  September, 
nineteen  hundred  and  thirteen.     [Approved  June  16,  1913. 

The  Board  of  Education,  in  accordance  with  a  request  from  the 
Legislature  (chapter  64,  Resolves  of  1911),  made  an  investigation 
into  the  need  of  part-time  schooling,  vocational  or  otherwise,  for 
working  children,  and  presented  a  report  to  the  Legislature  of 
1913  on  the  needs  and  possibilities  of  part-time  schooling,  for 
which  the  above  act  makes  provision. 

LABOR   OF  MINORS. 

Chapter  831. 


An  Act  to  regulate  the  labor  of  minors. 

Section  1.  Section  fifty-six  of  chapter  five  hundred  and  fourteen  of 
the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  nine,  as  amended  by  section 
fourteen  of  chapter  seven  hundred  and  seventy-nine  of  the  acts  of  the 
year  nineteen  hundred  and  thirteen,  is  hereby  further  amended  by  strik- 
ing out  the  said  section  and  inserting  in  place  thereof  the  following:  — 
Section  56.  No  minor  under  fourteen  years  of  age  shall  be  employed  or 
permitted  to  work  in  or  about  or  in  connection  with  any  factory,  work- 
shop, manufacturing,  mechanical  or  mercantile  establishment,  barber 
shop,  bootblack  stand  or  establishment,  public  stable,  garage,  brick  or 
lumber  yard,  telephone  exchange,  telegraph  or  messenger  office  or  in  the 
construction  or  repair  of  buildings,  or  in  any  contract  or  wage  earning 
industry  carried  on  in  tenement  or  other  houses.  No  minor  under  four- 
teen years  of  age  shall  be  employed  at  work  performed  for  wage  or  other 
compensation,  to  whomsoever  payable,  during  the  hours  when  the  public 
schools  are  in  session  or  shall  be  employed  at  work  before  half  past  six 
o'clock  in  the  morning  or  after  six  o'clock  in  the  evening. 

MINORS   UNDER   SIXTEEN. 

Section  2.  No  minor  under  sixteen  years  of  age  shall  be  employed 
or  permitted  to  work  in  operating  or  assisting  in  operating  any  of  the 
following  machines:  (1)  circular  or  band  saws,  (2)  wood  shapers,  (3) 
wood  jointers,  (4)  planers,  (5)  picker  machines  or  machines  used  in  pick- 
ing wool,  cotton,  hair  or  any  other  material,  (6)  paperlace  machines, 
(7)  leather  burnishing  machines,  (8)  job  or  cylinder  printing  presses 
operated  by  power  other  than  foot  power,  (9)  stamping  machines  used  in 
sheet  metal  and  tinware  or  in  paper  or  leather  manufacturing  or  in  washer 
and  nut  factories,  (10)  metal  or  paper  cutting  machines,  (11)  corner  stay- 
ing machines  in  paper  box  factories,  (12)  corrugating  rolls  such  as  are 


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used  in  corrugated  paper  or  in  roofing  or  washboard  factories,  (13)  steam 
boilers,  (14)  dough  brakes  or  cracker  machinery  of  any  description,  (15) 
wire  or  iron  straightening  or  drawing  machinery,  (16)  rolling  mill  machin- 
ery, (17)  power  punches  or  shears,  (18)  washing  or  grinding  or  mixing 
machinery,  (19)  calender  rolls  in  paper  and  rubber  manufacturing  or  other 
heavy  rolls  driven  by  power,  (20)  laundering  machinery,  (21)  upon  or 
in  connection  with  any  dangerous  electrical  machinery  or  appliances. 

Section  3.  No  minor  under  sixteen  years  of  age  shall  be  employed  or 
permitted  to  work  in  any  capacity  in  adjusting,  or  assisting  in  adjusting 
any  hazardous  belt  to  any  machinery,  or  in  oiling  or  cleaning  hazardous 
machinery,  or  in  proximity  to  any  hazardous  or  unguarded  belts,  ma- 
chinery or  gearing  while  such  machinery  or  gearing  is  in  motion;  nor  on 
scaffolding;  nor  in  heavy  work  in  the  building  trades;  nor  in  stripping, 
assorting,  manufacturing  or  packing  tobacco;  nor  in  any  tunnel;  nor  in 
a  public  bowling  alley;  nor  in  a  pool  or  billiard  room. 

Section  4.  The  state  board  of  labor  and  industries  may  from  time 
to  time,  after  a  hearing  or  hearings  duly  held,  determine  whether  or  not 
any  particular  trade,  process  of  manufacture  or  occupation  in  which  the 
employment  of  minors  under  the  age  of  sixteen  years  is  not  already  for- 
bidden by  law,  or  any  particular  method  of  carrying  on  such  trade,  pro- 
cess of  manufacture  or  occupation,  is  sufficiently  dangerous  or  is  suffi- 
ciently injurious  to  the  health  or  morals  of  minors  under  sixteen  years 
of  age  to  justify  their  exclusion  therefrom.  No  minor  under  sixteen  years 
of  age  shall  be  employed  or  permitted  to  work  in  any  trade,  process  or 
occupation  thus  determined  to  be  dangerous  or  injurious  to  such  minors. 

MINORS   UNDER   EIGHTEEN. 

Section  5.  No  minor  under  eighteen  years  of  age  shall  be  employed 
or  permitted  to  work:  (1)  in  or  about  blast  furnaces;  (2)  in  the  operation 
or  management  of  hoisting  machines;  (3)  in  oiling  or  cleaning  hazardous 
machinery  in  motion;  (4)  in  the  operation  or  use  of  any  polishing  or 
buffing  wheel;  (5)  at  switch  tending;  (6)  at  gate  tending;  (7)  at  track 
repairing;  (8)  as  a  brakeman,  fireman,  engineer,  motorman  or  conductor 
upon  a  railroad  or  railway;  (9)  as  a  fireman  or  engineer  upon  any  boat  or 
vessel;  (10)  in  operating  motor  vehicles  of  any  description;  (11)  in  or 
about  establishments  wherein  gunpowder,  nitro-glycerine,  dynamite  or 
other  high  or  dangerous  explosive  is  manufactured  or  compounded;  (12) 
in  the  manufacture  of  white  or  yellow  phosphorus  or  phosphorus  matches; 
(13)  in  any  distillery,  brewery,  or  any  other  establishment  where  malt  or 
alcoholic  liquors  are  manufactured,  packed,  wrapped  or  bottled;  (14)  in 
that  part  of  any  hotel,  theatre,  concert  hall,  place  of  amusement  or  other 
establishment  where  intoxicating  liquors  are  sold.  The  provisions  of  this 
section  shall  not  prohibit  the  employment  of  minors  in  drug  stores. 

Section  6.  The  state  board  of  labor  and  industries  may  from  time  to 
time,  after  a  hearing  or  hearings  duly  held,  determine  whether  or  not  any 
particular  trade,  process  of  manufacture  or  occupation,  in  which  the 


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employment  of  minors  under  the  age  of  eighteen  j^ears  is  not  already  for- 
bidden by  law,  or  any  particular  method  of  carrying  on  such  trade, 
process  of  manufacture  or  occupation,  is  sufficiently  dangerous  or  is 
sufficiently  injurious  to  the  health  or  morals  of  minors  under  eighteen 
years  of  age  to  justify  their  exclusion  therefrom.  No  minor  under  eight- 
een years  of  age  shall  be  employed  or  permitted  to  work  in  any  trade, 
process  or  occupation  thus  determined  to  be  dangerous  or  injurious  to 
such  minors. 

PERSONS   UNDER   TWENTY-ONE. 

Section  7.  No  person  under  twenty-one  years  of  age  shall  be  em- 
ployed or  permitted  to  work  in,  about  or  in  connection  with  any  saloon 
or  bar-room  where  alcoholic  liquors  are  sold.  No  such  person  in  any 
employment  shall  knowingly  be  taken,  sent  or  caused  or  permitted  to  be 
sent,  to  any  disorderly  house  or  house  of  prostitution  or  assignation  or 
other  immoral  place  or  resort  or  amusement. 

Section  8.  No  minor  under  sixteen  years  of  age  shall  be  employed  or 
permitted  to  work  in,  about  or  in  connection  with  any  establishment  or 
occupation  named  in  section  one  for  more  than  six  days  in  any  one  week, 
nor  more  than  forty-eight  hours  in  any  one  week,  nor  more  than  eight 
hours  in  any  one  day,  nor  before  the  hour  of  half-past  six  o'clock  in  the 
morning,  nor  after  the  hour  of  six  o'clock  in  the  evening  of  any  day. 

Section  9.  No  boy  under  the  age  of  eighteen  years  and  no  girl  under 
the  age  of  twenty-one  years  shall  be  employed  or  permitted  to  work  in, 
about  or  in  connection  with  any  establishment  or  occupation  named  in 
section  one  for  more  than  six  days  in  any  one  week,  nor  more  than  fifty- 
four  hours  in  any  one  week,  nor  more  than  ten  hours  in  any  one  day, 
nor  before  the  hour  of  five  o'clock  in  the  morning,  nor  after  the  hour  of 
ten  o'clock  in  the  evening,  nor  in  the  manufacture  of  textile  goods  after 
the  hour  of  six  o'clock  in  the  evening. 

Section  10.  Except  for  the  delivery  of  messages  directly  connected 
with  the  business  of  conducting  or  publishing  a  newspaper,  to  a  newspaper 
office  or  directly  between  newspaper  offices,  no  person  under  the  age  of 
twenty-one  years  shall  be  employed  or  permitted  to  work  as  messenger 
for  a  telegraph,  telephone  or  messenger  company  in  the  distribution,  trans- 
mission or  delivery  of  goods  or  messages  before  five  o'clock  in  the  morning 
or  after  ten  o'clock  in  the  evening  of  an}r  day. 

street  trades. 

Section  11.  No  boy  under  twelve  years  of  age  and  no  girl  under 
eighteen  years  of  age  shall,  in  any  city  having  a  population  of  over  fifty 
thousand  inhabitants,  sell,  expose  or  offer  for  sale  any  newspapers,  maga- 
zines, periodicals,  or  any  other  articles  of  merchandise  of  any  description, 
or  exercise  the  trade  of  bootblack  or  scavenger,  or  any  other  trade,  in  any 
street  or  public  place. 

Section  12.    No  boy  under  sixteen  years  of  age  shall,  in  any  city 


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having  a  population  of  over  fifty  thousand  inhabitants,  engage  in  any  of 
the  trades  or  occupations  mentioned  in  the  preceding  section,  unless  he 
complies  with  all  of  the  provisions  of  this  act  and  with  all  of  the  legal 
requirements  concerning  school  attendance,  and  unless  a  badge  as  herein- 
after provided  shall  have  been  issued  to  him  by  the  officer  authorized  to 
issue  employment  certificates  in  the  city  or  town  where  such  boy  resides. 

Section  13.  Such  badge  shall  not  be  issued  until  the  officer  issuing  the 
same  shall  have  received,  examined,  approved  and  filed  evidence  that  such 
boy  is  twelve  years  of  age  or  upwards,  which  shall  consist  of  the  proof  of 
age  required  for  the  issuing  of  an  employment  certificate.  Such  officer  may 
refuse  to  issue  such  badge  to  any  boy  who,  in  his  opinion  after  due  investi- 
gation, is  found  to  be  physically  or  mentally  incompetent  or  unable  to  do 
such  work  in  addition  to  the  regular  school  attendance  required  by  law. 

Section  14.  The  badge  herein  required  shall  be  worn,  conspicuously 
exposed  at  all  times,  by  such  boy  while  so  working.  No  boy  to  whom  the 
said  badge,  has  been  issued  shall  transfer  the  same  to  any  other  boy.  He 
shall  exhibit  the  same  upon  demand  at  any  time  to  any  officer  charged 
with  the  duty  of  enforcing  the  provisions  of  this  act  which  relate  to  street 
trades.  The  school  committee  of  any  city  may  make  further  regulations 
and  requirements  for  the  issuance  of  the  badge  required  by  this  act. 

Section  15.  No  boy  under  sixteen  years  of  age  shall  engage  in  any  of 
the  trades  or  occupations  mentioned  in  section  eleven  in  any  street  or 
public  place  after  nine  o  'clock  in  the  evening  or  before  five  o  'clock  in  the 
morning  of  any  day,  nor,  unless  provided  with  an  employment  certificate, 
during  the  hours  when  the  public  schools  in  the  city  where  such  boy 
resides,  or  the  schools  which  such  boy  attends,  are  in  session. 

enforcement. 

Section  16.  Except  as  provided  in  section  seventeen,  every  person 
employing  any  minor  in  any  establishment  mentioned  in  this  act  shall 
post  and  keep  posted  in  a  conspicuous  place  in  the  room  where  such  minor 
is  employed  or  permitted  to  work  a  printed  notice  stating  the  number  of 
hours  such  minor  is  required  or  permitted  to  work  on  each  day  of  the  week, 
with  the  total  for  the  week,  the  hours  of  commencing  and  stopping  work 
and  the  hours  when  the  time  allowed  for  meals  begins  and  ends  for  each 
day  of  the  week. 

The  employment  of  any  minor  at  any  time  other  than  as  stated  in  said 
printed  notice  shall  be  deemed  a  violation  of  the  provisions  of  this  section. 
The  terms  of  such  notice  for  any  week  or  part  thereof  shall  not  be  changed 
after  the  beginning  of  labor  on  the  first  day  of  the  week,  without  the 
written  consent  of  the  commissioner  of  labor. 

Section  17.  Every  employer  who  employs  any  minor  subject  to  the 
provisions  of  this  act  and  who  is  engaged  in  furnishing  public  service 
shall  post  in  a  conspicuous  place  in  every  room  in  which  such  persons  are 
employed  a  printed  notice  stating  separately  the  hours  of  employment 
for  each  shift  or  tour  of  duty  and  the  time  allowed  for  meals. 


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A  list  by  name  of  minor  employees,  stating  in  which  shift  each  is  em- 
ployed, shall  be  kept  on  file  at  each  place  of  employment  for  inspection 
by  employees  and  officers  charged  with  the  enforcement  of  the  law. 

The  provisions  of  this  act,  so  far  as  they  relate  to  hours  of  employment 
of  minors  of  eighteen  years  or  over,  shall  not  apply  to  such  employers  in 
cases  of  extraordinary  emergency  or  extraordinary  public  requirement, 
but  in  such  cases  no  employment  contrary  to  the  provisions  of  this  act 
shall  be  considered  as  legalized  until  a  written  report  of  the  day  and  hour 
of  its  occurrence  and  its  duration  is  sent  to  the  commissioner  of  labor. 

Section  18.  The  state  board  of  labor  and  industries,  after  approval 
by  the  attorney-general,  shall  furnish  the  printed  forms  of  the  laws  and 
notices  required  by  this  act,  upon  application,  to  all  persons  required  to 
post  the  same. 

The  inspectors  of  the  state  board  of  labor  and  industries  shall  visit  and 
inspect  the  places  of  employment  mentioned  in  this  act  and  shall  ascertain 
whether  any  minors  are  employed  therein  contrary  to  the  provisions  of 
this  act,  and  shall  prosecute  violations  thereof.  They  shall  report  to  the 
school  authorities  any  cases  of  children  under  sixteen  years  of  age  dis- 
charged for  illegal  employment.  Any  person  shall  have  the  right  to  prose- 
cute violations  of  this  act. 

Section  19.  The  provisions  of  this  act  relating  to  minors  engaged  in 
the  occupations  mentioned  in  section  eleven  shall  be  enforced  by  the 
truant  officers  and  school  attendance  officers,  who  are  hereby  vested  with 
full  police  power  for  the  purpose,  and  by  police  officers.  The  school 
committee  of  each  city  may  appoint  or  designate  one  or  more  special 
truant  or  attendance  officers  to  have  supervision  over  minors  engaged  in 
such  occupations  and  over  the  enforcement  of  the  said  provisions. 

PENALTIES. 

Section  20.  Any  person  who,  whether  by  himself  or  for  others,  or 
through  agents,  servants  or  foremen  employs,  induces  or  permits  any 
minor  to  work  contrary  to  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  act,  shall  be  deemed 
guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  shall,  for  a  first  offence,  be  punished  by  a 
fine  of  not  less  than  ten  dollars  nor  more  than  fifty  dollars,  or  by  imprison- 
ment for  not  more  than  thirty  days,  or  by  both  such  fine  and  imprison- 
ment; and  for  a  second  or  subsequent  offence,  by  a  fine  of  not  less  than 
fifty  dollars  nor  more  than  two  hundred  dollars  or  by  imprisonment  for 
not  more  than  sixty  days,  or  by  both  such  fine  and  imprisonment. 

The  employment  of  any  minor  in  violation  of  any  provision  of  this  act 
after  the  person  employing  such  minor  has  been  notified  thereof  in  writing 
by  any  authorized  inspector,  school  attendance  officer  or  truant  officer, 
shall  constitute  a  separate  offence  for  every  day  during  which  the  employ- 
ment continues. 

Section  21.  Any  person  who  hinders  or  delays  any  authorized  in- 
spector, school  attendance  officer,  or  truant  officer  in  the  performance  of 
his  duties,  or  who  refuses  to  admit  to  or  locks  out  any  such  inspector  or 


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officer  from  any  place  which  such  inspector  or  officer  is  authorized  to 
inspect,  or  who  refuses  to  give  to  such  inspector  or  officer  such  informa- 
tion as  may  be  required  for  the  proper  enforcement  of  this  act,  shall  be 
deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  of  not 
less  than  twenty-five  dollars  nor  more  than  two  hundred  dollars,  or  by 
imprisonment  for  not  more  than  sixty  days,  or  by  both  such  fine  and 
imprisonment. 

Section  22.  Any  person  who  furnishes  or  sells  to  any  minor  any 
article  of  any  description  with  the  knowledge  that  the  minor  intends  to 
sell  such  articles  in  violation  of  any  provision  of  this  act,  or  after  having 
received  written  notice  to  this  effect  from  any  officer  charged  with  the 
enforcement  of  any  provision  of  this  act,  or  any  person  who  knowingly 
procures  or  encourages  any  minor  to  violate  any  of  the  provisions  of  this 
act,  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  shall  be  punished  by  a 
fine  of  not  less  than  ten  dollars  nor  more  than  two  hundred  dollars,  or  by 
imprisonment  for  not  more  than  sixty  days,  or  by  both  such  fine  and 
imprisonment. 

Section  23.  Any  parent,  guardian  or  custodian  having  a  minor  under 
his  control,  who  compels  or  permits  such  minor  to  work  in  violation  of 
any  provision  of  this  act,  or  who  knowingly  certifies  to  any  materially 
false  statement  for  the  purpose  of  obtaining  the  illegal  employment  of 
such  minor,  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and,  upon  convic- 
tion, shall  for  the  first  offence  be  punished  by  a  fine  of  not  less  than  two 
dollars  nor  more  than  ten  dollars,  or  by  imprisonment  for  not  more  than 
five  days,  or  by  both  such  fine  and  imprisonment;  and  for  a  second  or 
subsequent  offence  he  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  of  not  less  than  five 
dollars  nor  more  than  twenty-five  dollars,  or  by  imprisonment  for  not 
more  than  ten  days,  or  by  both  such  fine  and  imprisonment. 

Section  24.  Any  inspector,  school  attendance  officer,  truant  officer, 
superintendent  of  schools  or  other  person  authorized  to  issue  the  badges 
required  by  this  act,  or  any  other  person  charged  with  the  enforcement 
of  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  act,  who  knowingly  violates  or  fails  to 
comply  with  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  act  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a 
misdemeanor,  and,  upon  conviction,  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  of  not 
less  than  ten  dollars  nor  more  than  two  hundred  dollars  or  by  imprison- 
ment for  not  more  than  sixty  days,  or  by  both  such  fine  and  imprisonment. 

Section  25.  Any  minor  who  shall  engage  in  any  of  the  trades  or 
occupations  mentioned  in  section  eleven  in  violation  of  any  provision  of 
this  act  shall,  for  the  first  offence,  be  warned  by  the  officers  whose  duty  it 
is  to  enforce  the  provisions  of  this  act  relating  to  street  trades,  and  the 
parent,  guardian  or  custodian  shall  be  notified.  In  case  of  a  second  vio- 
lation, such  minor  may  be  arrested  and  dealt  with  as  a  delinquent  child, 
or,  if  over  seventeen  years  of  age,  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  not  exceed- 
ing fifteen  dollars  upon  the  recommendation  of  the  principal  or  chief 
executive  officer  of  the  school  which  such  minor  is  attending,  or  upon  the 
complaint  of  any  school  attendance  officer,  truant  officer,  police  officer 


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or  probation  officer,  the  badge  of  any  minor  who  violates  any  provision 
of  this  act,  or  who  becomes  delinquent  or  fails  to  comply  with  all  legal 
requirements  concerning  school  attendance,  may  be  revoked  by  the  offi- 
cer issuing  the  same  for. a  period  of  three  months  and  the  badge  taken 
from  such  minor.  The  refusal  of  any  minor  to  surrender  such  badge,  or 
the  working  at  any  of  the  occupations  mentioned  in  section  eleven  by 
any  minor  after  notice  of  the  revocation  of  such  badge,  shall  be  deemed 
a  violation  of  this  act. 

Section  26.  Police,  district  and  municipal  courts  and  trial  justices 
and  the  Boston  juvenile  court  as  to  minors  under  seventeen  years  of  age 
shall  have  jurisdiction  of  offences  arising  under  this  act.  A  summons  or 
warrant  issued  by  any  such  court  or  justice  may  be  served  at  the  direc- 
tion of  the  court  or  magistrate  by  an  inspector  of  the  state  board  of  labor 
and  industries  or  by  a  truant  officer  or  school  attendance  officer,  or  by 
any  officer  qualified  to  serve  criminal  process. 


MISCELLANEOUS. 

Section  27.  Nothing  in  this  act  shall  be  construed  to  apply  to  the 
juvenile  reformatories,  other  than  the  Massachusetts  reformatory,  or  to 
prevent  minors  of  any  age  from  receiving  manual  training  or  industrial 
education  in  or  in  connection  with  any  school  in  this  commonwealth 
which  has  duly  been  approved  by  the  school  committee  or  by  the  board 
of  education. 

Section  28.  All  acts  and  parts  of  acts  inconsistent  with  the  provi- 
sions of  this  act  are  hereby  repealed. 

Section  29.  This  act  shall  take  effect  on  the  first  day  of  September, 
nineteen  hundred  and  thirteen.     [Approved  June  19,  1913. 


RETIREMENT   SYSTEM   FOR  PUBLIC   SCHOOL   TEACHERS. 

Chapter  832. 

An  Act  to  establish  a  retirement  system  for  public  school 

teachers. 

construction. 
Section  1.     The  following  words  and  phrases  as  used  in  this  act, 
unless  a  different  meaning  is  plainly  required  by  the  context,  shall  have 
the  following  meanings :  — 

(1)  "Retirement  system"  shall  mean  the  arrangement  provided  in  this 
act  for  payment  of  annuities  and  pensions  to  teachers. 

(2)  "Annuities"  shall  mean  payments  for  life  derived  from  contribu- 
tions from  teachers. 

(3)  "Pensions"  shall  mean  payments  for  life  derived  from  contribu- 
tions from  the  commonwealth. 


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(4)  "Teacher"  shall  mean  any  teacher,  principal,  supervisor  or  super- 
intendent employed  by  a  school  committee,  or  board  of  trustees,  in  a 
public  day  school  within  the  commonwealth. 

(5)  "Public  school"  shall  mean  any  day  school  conducted  within  this 
commonwealth  under  the  order  and  superintendence  of  a  duly  elected 
school  committee  and  also  any  day  school  conducted  under  the  provisions 
of  chapter  four  hundred  and  seventy-one  of  the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen 
hundred  and  eleven. 

(6)  "Regular  interest"  shall  mean  interest  at  three  per  cent  per  annum, 
compounded  annually  on  the  last  day  of  December  of  each  year. 

(7)  "Retirement  board"  shall  mean  the  teachers'  retirement  board,  as 
provided  in  section  four  of  this  act. 

(8)  "Retirement  association"  shall  mean  the  teachers'  retirement  asso- 
ciation, as  provided  in  section  three  of  this  act. 

(9)  "  Expense  fund  "  shall  mean  the  fund  provided  for  in  paragraph 
numbered  one  in  section  five  of  this  act. 

(10)  "Annuity  fund"  shall  mean  the  fund  provided  for  in  paragraph 
numbered  two  in  section  five  of  this  act. 

(11)  "Pension  fund"  shall  mean  the  fund  provided  for  in  paragraph 
numbered  three  in  section  five  of  this  act. 

(12)  "School  year"  shall  mean  the  twelve  months  from  the  first  day  of 
July  of  any  year  to  the  thirtieth  day  of  June  next  succeeding. 

(13)  "Assessments"  shall  mean  the  annual  payments  to  the  annuity 
fund  by  members  of  the  association. 

ESTABLISHMENT   OP  A   TEACHERS'   RETIREMENT   SYSTEM. 

Section  2.  A  teacher's  retirement  system  shall  be  established  on  the 
first  day  of  July,  nineteen  hundred  and  fourteen. 

TEACHERS'   RETIREMENT   ASSOCIATION. 

Section  3.  A  teachers'  retirement  association  shall  be  organized 
among  the  teachers  in  the  public  schools  as  follows :  — 

(1)  All  teachers,  except  those  specified  in  paragraph  (3)  of  this  section, 
who  enter  the  service  of  the  public  schools  for  the  first  time  on  or  after 
July  first,  nineteen  hundred  and  fourteen,  shall  become  thereby  mem- 
bers of  the  association. 

(2)  All  teachers,  except  those  specified  in  paragraph  (3)  of  this  section, 
who  shall  have  entered  the  service  of  the  public  schools  before  June 
thirtieth,  nineteen  hundred  and  fourteen,  may  at  any  time  between  July 
first,  nineteen  hundred  and  fourteen,  and  September  thirtieth,  nineteen 
hundred  and  fourteen,  upon  application  in  writing  to  the  commissioner 
of  education,  become  members  of  the  retirement  association.  Any  teacher 
failing  to  do  so  may  thereafter  become  a  member  of  the  retirement  board 
by  paying  an  amount  equal  to  the  total  assessments,  together  with  regu- 


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lar  interest  thereon,  that  he  would  have  paid  if  he  had  joined  the  retire- 
ment association  on  September  thirtieth,  nineteen  hundred  and  fourteen. 
(3)  Teachers  in  the  service  of  the  public  schools  of  the  city  of  Boston 
shall  not  be  included  as  members  of  the  retirement  association. 

STATE   TEACHERS'   RETIREMENT   BOARD. 

Section  4.  (1)  The  management  of  the  retirement  system  is  hereby 
vested  in  the  teachers'  retirement  board,  consisting  of  seven  members: 
the  insurance  commissioner  for  the  commonwealth,  the  bank  commis- 
sioner for  the  commonwealth,  the  commissioner  of  education  for  the 
commonwealth,  three  members  of  the  retirement  association  and  one 
other  person.  Upon  organization  of  the  retirement  association  the  mem- 
bers thereof  shall  elect  from  among  their  number  in  a  manner  to  be 
approved  by  the  insurance  commissioner,  the  bank  commissioner  and  the 
commissioner  of  education,  three  persons  to  serve  upon  the  retirement 
board,  one  member  to  serve  for  one  year,  one  for  two  years  and  one  for 
three  years,  and  thereafter  the  members  of  the  retirement  association 
shall  elect  annually  from  among  their  number  in  a  manner  to  be  approved 
by  the  retirement  board  one  person  to  serve  upon  the  retirement  board 
for  the  term  of  three  years.  The  seventh  member  of  the  retirement 
board  shall  be  elected  annually  by  the  other  six  to  serve  for  the  term  of 
one  year.  On  a  vacancy  occurring  on  the  board,  a  successor  of  such 
person  whose  place  has  become  vacant  shall  be  chosen  in  the  same  man- 
ner as  his  predecessor  to  serve  until  the  next  annual  election.  Until  the 
organization  of  the  retirement  association  and  the  election  of  three  rep- 
resentatives therefrom,  the  insurance  commissioner,  the  bank  commis- 
sioner and  the  commissioner  of  education  shall  be  empowered  to  perform 
the  duties  of  the  retirement  board. 

(2)  The  members  of  the  retirement  board  shall  serve  without  compensa- 
tion, but  they  shall  be  reimbursed  from  the  expense  fund  of  the  retire- 
ment association  for  any  expenditures  or  loss  of  salary  or  wages  which 
they  may  incur  through  serving  on  the  board.  All  claims  for  reimburse- 
ment on  this  account  shall  be  subject  to  the  approval  of  the  governor  and 
council. 

(3)  The  retirement  board  shall  have  power  to  make  by-laws  and  regu- 
lations not  inconsistent  with  the  provisions  of  this  act;  and  to  employ 
a  secretary  who  shall  give  a  bond  in  such  amount  as  the  board  shall 
approve,  and  clerical  and  other  assistance  as  may  be  necessary.  The  sal- 
aries shall  be  fixed  by  the  board,  with  the  approval  of  the  governor  and 
council. 

(4)  The  retirement  board  shall  provide  for  the  payment  of  retirement 
allowances  and  such  other  expenditures  as  are  required  by  the  provisions 
of  this  act. 

(5)  The  retirement  board  shall  adopt  for  the  retirement  system  one  or 
more  mortality  tables,  and  shall  determine  what  rates  of  interest  shall  be 


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established  in  connection  with  such  tables,  and  may  later  modify  such 
tables  or  prescribe  other  tables  to  represent  more  accurately  the  expense 
of  the  retirement  system  or  may  change  such  rates  of  interest,  and  may 
determine  the  application  of  the  changes  made. 

(6)  The  retirement  board  shall  perform  such  other  functions  as  are 
required  for  the  execution  of  the  provisions  of  this  act. 

CREATION   OF  FUNDS. 

Section  5.  The  funds  of  the  retirement  sj^stem  shall  consist  of  an 
expense  fund,  an  annuity  fund  and  a  pension  fund. 

(1)  The  expense  fund  shall  consist  of  such  amounts  as  shall  be  appro- 
priated by  the  general  court  from  year  to  year  on  estimates  submitted  by 
the  retirement  board  to  defray  the  expense  of  the  administration  of  this 
act,  exclusive  of  the  payment  of  retirement  allowances. 

(2)  The  annuity  fund  shall  consist  of  assessments  paid  by  members  of 
the  retirement  association,  and  interest  derived  from  investments  of  the 
annuity  fund.  Each  member  of  the  retirement  association  shall  pay  into 
the  annuity  fund,  by  deduction  from  his  salary  in  the  manner  provided  in 
section  nine,  paragraph  five,  of  this  act,  such  assessments  upon  his  salary 
as  may  be  determined  by  the  retirement  board.  The  rate  of  assessment 
shall  be  established  by  the  retirement  board  on  the  first  day  of  July  of 
each  year  after  a  prior  notice  of  at  least  three  months,  and  shall  at  any 
given  time  be  uniform  for  all  members  of  the  retirement  association,  and 
shall  not  be  less  than  three  per  cent  nor  more  than  seven  per  cent  of  the 
members'  salary:  provided,  however,  that  when  the  total  sum  of  assess- 
ments on  the  salary  of  any  member  at  the  rate  established  by  the  retire- 
ment board  would  amount  to  more  than  one  hundred  dollars  or  less  than 
thirty-five  dollars  for  any  school  year,  such  member  shall  in  lieu  of  assess- 
ments at  the  regular  rate  be  assessed  one  hundred  dollars  a  year  or  thirty- 
five  dollars  a  year  as  the  case  may  be,  payable  in  equal  instalments  to  be 
assessed  for  the  number  of  months  during  which  the  schools  of  the  com- 
munity in  which  such  member  is  employed  are  commonly  in  session.  Any 
member  of  the  retirement  association  who  shall  for  thirty  years  have  paid 
regular  assessments  to  the  annuity  fund  as  provided  herein,  shall  be  exempt 
from  further  assessments;  but  such  member  may  thereafter,  if  he  so  elects, 
continue  to  pay  his  assessments  to  the  fund.  No  member  so  electing  shall 
pay  further  assessments  after  the  total  sum  of  assessments  paid  by  him 
shall  at  any  time  have  amounted,  with  regular  interest,  to  a  sum  sufficient 
to  purchase  an  annuity  of  five  hundred  dollars  at  age  sixty;  and  interest 
thereafter  accruing  shall  be  paid  to  the  member  at  the  time  of  his  retire- 
ment. 

(3)  The  pension  fund  shall  consist  of  such  amounts  as  shall  be  appro- 
priated by  the  general  court  from  time  to  time  on  estimates  submitted 
by  the  retirement  board  for  the  purpose  of  paying  the  pensions  provided 
for  in  this  act. 


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PAYMENT   OF   RETIREMENT   ALLOWANCES. 

Section  6.  (1)  Any  member  of  the  retirement  association  may  retire 
from  the  service  in  the  public  schools  on  attaining  the  age  of  sixty  years, 
or,  at  any  time  thereafter,  if  incapable  of  rendering  satisfactory  service 
as  a  teacher,  may,  with  the  approval  of  the  retirement  board,  be  retired 
by  the  employing  school  committee. 

(2)  Any  member  of  the  retirement  association,  on  attaining  the  age  of 
seventy  years,  shall  be  retired  from  service  in  the  public  schools. 

(3)  A  member  of  the  retirement  association  after  his  retirement  under 
the  provisions  of  paragraphs  numbered  (1)  or  (2)  of  this  section,  shall  be 
entitled  to  receive  from  the  annuity  fund,  as  he  shall  elect  at  the  time  of 
his  retirement,  on  the  basis  of  tables  adopted  by  the  retirement  board:  — 
(a)  an  annuity  payable  in  quarterly  payments,  to  which  the  sum  of  his 
assessments  under  section  five,  paragraph  (2),  with  regular  interest 
thereon,  shall  entitle  him;  or,  (b)  an  annuity  of  less  amount,  as  determined 
by  the  retirement  board  for  the  annuitants  electing  such  option,  payable 
in  quarterly  payments,  with  the  provision  that  if  the  annuitant  dies 
before  receiving  payments  equal  to  the  sum  of  his  assessments  under 
section  five,  paragraph  (2),  with  regular  interest,  at  the  time  of  his  retire- 
ment, the  difference  between  the  total  amount  of  said  payments  and  the 
amount  of  his  contributions  with  regular  interest  shall  be  paid  to  his  legal 
representatives. 

(4)  Any  member  of  the  retirement  association  receiving  payments  of 
an  annuity  as  provided  in  paragraph  numbered  (3)  of  this  section  shall,  if 
not  rendered  ineligible  therefor  by  the  provisions  of  section  twelve  of  this 
act,  receive  with  each  quarterly  payment  of  his  annuity  an  equal  amount 
to  be  paid  from  the  pension  fund  as  directed  by  the  retirement  board. 

(5)  Any  teacher  who  shall  have  become  a  member  of  the  retirement 
association  under  the  provisions  of  paragraph  numbered  (2)  of  section 
three,  and  who  shall  have  served  fifteen  years  or  more  in  the  public  schools 
of  the  commonwealth,  not  less  than  five  of  which  shall  immediately 
precede  retirement,  shall,  on  retiring  as  provided  in  paragraphs  (1)  and 
(2)  of  this  section,  be  entitled  to  receive  a  retirement  allowance  as  follows: 
—  (a)  such  annuity  and  pension  as  may  be  due  under  the  provisions  of 
paragraphs  numbered  (3)  and  (4)  of  this  section;  (6)  an  additional  pen- 
sion to  such  an  amount  that  the  sum  of  this  additional  pension  and  the 
pension  provided  in  paragraph  (4)  of  this  section  shall  equal  the  pension 
to  which  he  would  have  been  entitled  under  the  provisions  of  this  act  if  he 
had  paid  thirty  assessments  on  his  average  yearly  wage  for  the  fifteen 
years  preceding  his  retirement  and  at  the  rate  in  effect  at  the  time  of  his 
retirement:  provided,  (1)  that  if  his  term  of  service  in  the  commonwealth 
shall  have  been  over  thirty  years  the  thirty  assessments  shall  be  reckoned 
as  having  begun  at  the  time  of  his  entering  service  and  as  drawing  regular 
interest  until  the  time  of  retirement;  and  further  provided,  (2)  that  if  the 
sum  of  such  additional  pension  together  with  the  annuity  and  pension  pro- 


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vided  for  by  paragraphs  numbered  (3)  and  (4)  of  this  section  is  less  than 
three  hundred  dollars  in  any  one  year,  an  additional  sum  sufficient  to  make 
an  annual  retirement  allowance  of  three  hundred  dollars  shall  be  paid  from 
the  pension  fund. 

(6)  If  at  any  time  it  is  impossible  or  impracticable  to  consult  the  original 
records  as  to  wages  received  by  a  member  during  any  period,  the  retire- 
ment board  shall  determine  the  pension  to  be  paid  under  paragraph  num- 
bered (5)  (6)  of  this  section  in  accordance  with  the  evidence  they  may  be 
able  to  obtain. 

WITHDRAWAL   AND   REINSTATEMENT. 

Section  7.  (1)  Any  member  of  the  retirement  association  with- 
drawing from  service  in  the  public  schools  before  becoming  eligible  to 
retirement  shall  be  entitled  to  receive  from  the  annuity  fund  all  amounts 
contributed  as  assessments,  together  with  regular  interest  thereon,  in  the 
manner  hereinafter  provided. 

(2)  If  such  withdrawal  shall  take  place  before  ten  annual  assessments 
have  been  paid,  the  total  amount  to  which  such  member  is  entitled  as 
determined  by  the  retirement  board  under  the  provisions  of  this  act  shall 
be  paid  to  him  in  four  annual  instalments. 

(3)  If  such  withdrawal  shall  take  place  after  ten  annual  assessments 
have  been  paid  the  amount  so  refunded  shall  be  in  the  form  of  such  annuity 
for  life  based  on  the  contributions  of  such  member,  together  with  regular 
interest  thereon,  as  may  be  determined  by  the  retirement  board  according 
to  its  annuity  tables,  or  in  four  annual  instalments,  as  such  member  may 
elect. 

(4)  If  a  member  of  the  association  withdrawing  and  receiving  payments 
in  accordance  with  paragraphs  numbered  (2)  and  (3)  of  this  section,  shall 
die  before  the  amount  of  such  payments  equals  the  amount  of  his  con- 
tributions to  the  annuity  fund  with  regular  interest,  the  difference  between 
the  amount  of  such  payments  and  the  amount  of  his  contributions  with 
regular  interest  shall  be  paid  to  his  legal  representatives. 

(5)  Any  member  of  the  retirement  association  who  shall  have  with- 
drawn from  service  in  the  public  schools  shall,  on  being  re-employed  in  the 
public  schools,  be  reinstated  in  the  retirement  association  in  accordance 
with  such  plans  for  reinstatement  as  the  retirement  board  shall  adopt. 

(6)  If  a  member  of  the  retirement  association  shall  die  before  retirement, 
the  full  amount  of  his  contributions  to  the  annuity  fund  with  regular 
interest  to  the  day  of  his  death  shall  be  paid  to  his  legal  representatives. 

taxation,  attachments  and  assignments. 
Section  8.  That  portion  of  the  salary  or  wages  of  a  member  deducted 
or  to  be  deducted  under  this  act,  the  right  of  a  member  to  an  annuity  or 
pension,  and  all  his  rights  in  the  funds  of  the  retirement  system  shall  be 
exempt  from  taxation,  and  from  the  operation  of  any  laws  relating  to 
bankruptcy  or  insolvency,  and  shall  not  be  attached  or  taken  upon  execu- 


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tion  or  other  process  of  any  court.  No  assignment  of  any  right  in,  or  to, 
said  funds  shall  be  valid.  The  funds  of  the  retirement  system,  so  far  as 
invested  in  personal  property,  shall  be  exempt  from  taxation. 

DUTIES   OF   THE    SCHOOL   COMMITTEE. 

Section  9.  (1)  The  school  committee  of  each  town  and  city  in  the 
commonwealth  shall,  before  employing  in  any  teaching  position  any  person 
to  whom  this  act  may  apply,  notify  such  person  of  his  duties  and  obliga- 
tions under  this  act  as  a  condition  of  his  employment. 

(2)  On  or  before  October  first  of  each  year  the  school  committee  of 
each  town  and  city  in  the  commonwealth  shall  certify  to  the  retirement 
board  the  names  of  all  teachers  to  whom  this  act  shall  apply. 

(3)  The  school  committee  of  each  town  and  city  in  the  common- 
wealth shall,  on  the  first  day  of  each  calendar  month,  notify  the  retire- 
ment board  of  the  employment  of  new  teachers,  removals,  withdrawals, 
changes  in  salary  of  teachers,  that  shall  have  occurred  during  the  month 
preceding. 

(4)  Under  the  direction  of  the  retirement  board  the  school  committee 
of  each  town  or  city  in  the  commonwealth  shall  furnish  such  other  informa- 
tion as  the  board  may  require  relevant  to  the  discharge  of  the  duties  of 
the  board. 

(5)  The  school  committee  of  each  town  and  city  in  the  commonwealth 
shall,  a\s  directed  by  the  retirement  board,  deduct  from  the  amount  of  the 
salary  due  each  teacher  employed  in  the  public  schools  of  such  city  or  town 
such  amounts  as  are  due  as  contributions  to  the  annuity  fund  as  prescribed 
in  this  act,  shall  send  to  the  treasurer  of  said  town  or  city  a  statement  as 
voucher  for  such  deductions,  and  shall  send  a  duplicate  statement  to  the 
secretary  of  the  retirement  board. 

(6)  The  school  committee  of  each  town  and  city  in  the  commonwealth 
shall  keep  such  records  as  the  retirement  board  may  require. 

DUTIES   OF   BOARDS   OF   TRUSTEES. 

Section  10.  In  administering  this  act  for  the  benefit  of  teachers  in 
schools  conducted  in  accordance  with  chapter  four  hundred  and  seventy- 
one  of  the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  eleven,  the  boards  of 
trustees  of  said  schools  are  hereby  authorized  and  required  to  perform  all 
the  duties  prescribed  for  school  committees  under  this  act. 

CUSTODY  AND  INVESTMENT  OF  FUNDS. 

Section  11.  (1)  The  treasurer  of  each  town  or  city  in  the  common- 
wealth on  receipt  from  the  school  committee  or  board  of  trustees  of  the 
voucher  for  deductions  from  the  teachers'  salaries  provided  for  in  section 
nine  shall  transmit,  monthly,  the  amounts  specified  in  such  voucher  to 
the  secretary  of  the  retirement  board. 


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(2)  The  secretary  of  the  retirement  board  shall  monthly  pay  to  the 
treasurer  of  the  commonwealth  all  sums  collected  by  him  under  the  pro- 
visions of  paragraph  (1). 

(3)  All  funds  of  the  retirement  system  shall  be  in  custody  and  charge 
of  the  treasurer  of  the  commonwealth  and  the  treasurer  shall  invest  such 
funds  as  are  not  required  for  current  disbursements  in  accordance  with 
the  laws  of  the  commonwealth  governing  the  investment  of  sinking  funds. 
He  may,  whenever  he  sells  securities,  deliver  the  securities  so  sold  upon 
receiving  the  proceeds  thereof,  and  may  execute  any  or  all  documents 
necessary  to  transfer  the  title  thereto. 

(4)  The  treasurer  of  the  commonwealth  shall  make  such  payments  to 
members  of  the  retirement  association  from  the  annuity  fund  and  pension 
fund  as  the  retirement  board  shall  order  to  be  paid  in  accordance  with 
sections  six  and  seven  of  this  act. 

(5)  On,  or  before,  the  third  Wednesday  in  January,  the  treasurer  of 
the  commonwealth  shall  file  with  the  insurance  commissioner  for  the 
commonwealth,  and  with  the  secretary  of  the  retirement  board,  a  sworn 
statement  exhibiting  the  financial  condition  of  the  retirement  system  on 
the  thirty-first  day  of  the  preceding  December  and  its  financial  transac- 
tions for  the  year  ending  at  such  date.  Such  statement  shall  be  in  the 
form  prescribed  by  the  retirement  board  and  approved  by  the  insurance 
commissioner. 

MEMBERSHIP   IN    OTHER   RETIREMENT   ASSOCIATIONS. 

Section  12.  (1)  No  person  required  to  become  a  member  of  the  asso- 
ciation, under  the  provisions  of  paragraph  (1)  of  section  three  of  this  act 
shall  be  entitled  to  participate  in  the  benefits  of  any  other  teachers'  retire- 
ment system,  supported  in  whole  or  in  part  by  funds  raised  by  taxation, 
or  to  a  pension  under  the  provisions  of  chapter  four  hundred  and  ninety- 
eight  of  the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  eight,  or  chapter  five 
hundred  and  eighty-nine  of  the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and 
eight,  as  amended  by  chapter  six  hundred  and  seventeen  of  the  acts  of  the 
year  nineteen  hundred  and  ten. 

(2)  No  member  of  the  retirement  association  shall  be  eligible  to  receive 
any  pension  as  described  in  section  six  of  this  act,  who  is  at  the  time  in 
receipt  of  a  pension  paid  from  funds  raised  in  whole  or  in  part  from  taxa- 
tion under  the  provisions  of  chapter  four  hundred  and  ninety-eight  of  the 
acts  of  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  eight,  or  chapter  five  hundred  and 
eighty-nine  of  the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  eight,  as  amended 
by  chapter  six  hundred  and  seventeen  of  the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen 
hundred  and  ten,  or  of  any  other  act  providing  pensions  for  teachers, 
providing  that  this  paragraph  shall  not  be  construed  as  applying  to  the 
Boston  Teachers'  Retirement  Fund  Association. 


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REIMBURSEMENT   OF   CITIES   AND   TOWNS. 

Section  13.  (1)  Whenever,  after  the  first  day  of  July,  nineteen  hun- 
dred and  fourteen,  a  town  or  city  retires  a  teacher  who  is  not  eligible  to 
a  pension  under  the  provisions  of  section  six,  paragraph  (4)  of  this  act, 
and  pays  to  such  teacher  a  pension  in  accordance  with  chapter  four  hun- 
dred and  ninety-eight  of  the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  eight, 
or  chapter  five  hundred  and  eighty-nine  of  the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen 
hundred  and  eight,  as  amended  by  chapter  six  hundred  and  seventeen  of 
the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  ten,  and  the  school  committee 
of  said  town  or  city  certifies  under  oath  to  the  retirement  board  to  the 
amount  of  said  pension,  said  town  or  city  shall  be  reimbursed  therefor 
annually  by  the  commonwealth:  provided,  that  no  such  reimbursement 
shall  be  in  excess  of  the  amount,  as  determined  by  the  retirement  board, 
to  which  said  teacher  would  have  been  entitled  as  a  pension,  had  he  become 
a  member  of  the  retirement  association  under  the  provisions  of  section 
three,  paragraph  (2)  of  this  act. 

(2)  On  or  before  the  first  Wednesday  of  January  of  each  year,  the 
retirement  board  shall  present  to  the  general  court,  a  statement  of  the 
amount  expended  previous  to  the  preceding  first  day  of  July  by  cities 
and  towns  in  the  payment  of  pensions  under  the  provisions  of  the  pre- 
ceding paragraph,  for  which  such  cities  and  towns  should  receive  reim- 
bursement. On  the  basis  of  such  a  statement,  the  general  court  may 
make  an  appropriation  for  the  reimbursement  of  such  cities  and  towns 
up  to  such  first  day  of  July. 

JURISDICTION   OF  COURT. 

Section  14.  The  superior  court  shall  have  jurisdiction  in  equity  upon 
petition  of  the  insurance  commissioner  or  of  any  interested  party  to  com- 
pel the  observance  and  restrain  the  violation  of  this  act,  and  of  the  rules 
and  regulations  established  by  the  retirement  board  hereunder. 

referendum  and  repeal. 
Section  15.  Upon  the  petition  of  not  less  than  five  per  cent  of  the 
legal  voters  of  any  city  or  town  that  has  adopted  chapter  four  hundred 
and  ninety-eight  of  the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  eight,  this 
question  shall  be  submitted,  in  case  of  a  city,  to  the  voters  of  such  city 
at  the  next  city  election,  and,  in  case  of  a  town,  to  the  voters  of  such  town 
at  he  next  annual  town  meeting,  and  the  vote  shall  be  in  answer  to  the 
question  to  be  placed  upon  the  ballot:  "Shall  an  act  passed  by  the  gen- 
eral court  in  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  eight,  entitled  'An  Act  to 
authorize  cities  and  towns  to  establish  pension  funds  for  teachers  in  the 
public  schools',  be  repealed?"  and  if  a  majority  of  the  voters  voting  thereon 
at  such  election  or  meeting  shall  vote  in  the  affirmative  said  act  shall  be 
repealed  in  such  city  or  town. 


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Section  16.  So  much  of  chapter  four  hundred  and  ninety-eight  of 
the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  eight  as  authorizes  its  sub- 
mission to  the  voters  of  a  city  or  town  for  acceptance  after  the  passage 
of  this  act  is  hereby  repealed. 

Section  17.  This  act  shall  take  effect  upon  its  passage.  [Approved 
June  19,  1913. 

In  accordance  with  a  request  from  the  Legislature  of  1911 
(chapter  47,  Resolves  of  1911),  the  Board  of  Education  submitted 
to  the  Legislature  of  1913  a  special  report  on  teachers'  retirement 
allowances.  The  above  act  makes  provision  for  a  retirement  sys- 
tem for  public  school  teachers. 

ELECTION   OF   SCHOOL   COMMITTEE. 

Chapter  835. 

Section  400.  .  .  .  The  town  shall  likewise  at  its  annual  meeting 
choose  from  the  inhabitants  thereof  members  of  the  school  committee, 
which  committee  shall  consist  of  any  number  of  persons  divisible  by 
three  which  the  town  has  decided  to  elect,  one  third  thereof  to  be  elected 
annually,  for  the  term  of  three  years.  If  a  town  fails  or  neglects  to  choose 
such  committee,  an  election  at  a  subsequent  meeting  shall  be  valid. 
Where  official  ballots  are  used  the  number  to  be  so  elected  shall  be  deter- 
mined at  a  meeting  held  at  least  thirty  days  before  the  annual  town 
meeting.  A  town  may,  at  an  annual  meeting,  if  official  ballots  are  not 
used,  otherwise  at  a  meeting  held  at  least  thirty  days  before  the  annual 
meeting  at  which  such  change  is  to  become  operative,  vote  to  increase 
or  diminish  the  number  of  its  school  committee.  Such  increase  shall  be 
made  by  adding  one  or  more  to  each  class,  to  hold  office  according  to  the 
tenure  of  the  class  to  which  they  are  severally  chosen.  Such  diminution 
shall  be  made  by  choosing,  annually,  such  number  as  will  in  three  years 
effect  it,  and  a  vote  to  diminish  shall  remain  in  force  until  the  diminution 
under  which  it  is  accomplished. 

Women  shall  be  eligible  as  overseers  of  the  poor  and  school  committee. 

Section  411.  The  election  of  town  clerk,  selectmen,  assessors,  over- 
seers of  the  poor,  town  treasurer,  auditor,  collector  of  taxes,  constables, 
road  commissioners,  sewer  commissioners,  board  of  health  and  school  com- 
mittee shall  be  by  ballot;  and  the  election  of  all  other  town  officers  shall 
be  in  such  manner  as  the  town  may  determine,  unless  otherwise  provided 
by  law.  .  .  . 

Section  413.  If  the  town  clerk,  selectmen,  assessors,  treasurer,  col- 
lector of  taxes  and  school  committee  are  voted  for  on  one  ballot,  the  mod- 


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erator  shall  cause  all  such  ballots  when  canvassed  and  counted,  and  record 
thereof  has  been  made,  publicly  to  be  enclosed  in  envelopes,  which  shall 
be  sealed  and  indorsed,  and  certified  in  the  manner  required  by  section 
three  hundred  and  four. 

Section  414.  A  person  who  is  elected  town  clerk,  if  present  at  the 
meeting,  shall  forthwith  be  sworn,  either  by  the  moderator  or  by  a  justice 
of  the  peace,  and  shall  at  once  enter  upon  the  performance  of  his  duties. 
Every  town  officer  designated  by  name  in  section  four  hundred,  unless 
other  provision  is  specifically  made  by  law,  shall  enter  upon  the  per- 
formance of  his  duties  on  the  day  after  his  election  or  as  soon  thereafter 
as  he  is  qualified,  and  shall  hold  office  during  the  term  fixed  by  law,  which 
shall  begin  on  the  day  after  the  annual  meeting,  and  until  another  person 
is  chosen  and  qualified  in  his  stead. 

Section  415.  Town  officers  designated  by  name  in  section  four  hun- 
dred shall,  before  entering  upon  their  official  duties,  be  sworn  to  the  faith- 
ful performance  thereof.  Such  oath  may  be  administered  by  the  moder- 
ator in  open  town  meeting,  or  by  the  town  clerk.  The  town  clerk  shall 
forthwith,  after  the  election  or  appointment  of  town  officers  required  to 
take  an  oath  of  office,  make  a  list  of  the  names  of  all  such  officers  not 
sworn  by  him  or  by  the  moderator,  and  deliver  it  with  his  warrant  to  a 
constable  requiring  him  within  three  days  to  summon  each  such  person 
to  appear  and  take  the  oath  of  office  within  seven  days  after  the  service 
of  such  summons  upon  him;  and  the  constable  shall  within  said  seven 
days  make  return  thereof  to  the  town  clerk.  Persons  so  summoned, 
unless  exempt  by  law  from  holding  the  office,  shall  within  said  seven  days, 
take  the  oath  of  office  before  the  town  clerk  or  before  a  justice  of  the 
peace,  and  file  a  certificate  thereof  with  the  town  clerk. 

•  •  ■  •  •  •  .  •  •  •  •  •  •  •« 

Section  420.  No  ballot  shall  be  received  from  any  woman  who  votes 
for  school  committee  in  a  town  which  does  not  use  official  ballots  unless 
it  has  the  words  "For  School  Committee  only",  on  the  back  thereof. 
Such  ballots  shall  be  counted  only  in  the  choice  of  members  of  the  school 
committee,  and  for  no  other  office  or  purpose. 

Section  429.  If  there  is  a  failure  to  elect,  or  if  a  vacancy  occurs  in 
any  town  office,  other  than  the  offices  of  selectmen,  town  clerk,  assessor, 
treasurer,  collector  of  taxes  or  auditor,  the  selectmen  shall  in  writing 
appoint  a  person  to  fill  such  vacancy.  If  there  is  a  vacancy  in  a  board 
consisting  of  two  or  more  members,  the  remaining  members  shall  give 
notice  thereof  in  writing  to  the  selectmen,  who,  with  the  remaining  mem- 
ber or  members  of  such  board  shall,  after  one  week's  notice,  fill  such 
vacancy  by  ballot.  A  majority  of  the  ballots  of  the  officers  entitled  to 
vote  shall  be  necessary  to  such  election.  The  person  so  appointed  or 
elected  shall  perform  the  duties  of  the  office  until  the  next  annual  meeting 
or  until  another  is  chosen  and  qualified. 


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Section  430.  If  a  person  removes  from  a  town,  he  shall  thereby 
vacate  any  town  office  held  by  him. 

Section  431.  The  proceedings  in  an  election  held  by  reason  of  a 
previous  failure  to  elect,  or  to  fill  a  vacancy,  and  the  qualifications  of  a 
person  to  be  elected  or  appointed,  shall  be  the  same  as  in  an  original 
election. 


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PART    III.  — SPECIAL    LEGISLATION    RELATING    TO 
SPECIFIC  COMMUNITIES  OR  INSTITUTIONS. 


PLAYGROUNDS   IN   THE    CITY   OF   WORCESTER. 

Chapter'  172. 
Ax  Act  relative  to  playgrounds  in  the  city  of  Worcester. 

Section  1.  The  park  commissioners  of  the  city  of  Worcester  may, 
upon  request  of  the  city  council,  set  apart  portions  of  public  parks  exist- 
ing in  that  city  for  the  purposes  of  public  playgrounds,  which  shall  there- 
after be  under  the  control  of  the  playground  commission. 

The  areas  so  set  apart  shall  be  described  by  metes  and  bounds,  and  a 
plan  thereof  shall  be  filed  with  the  clerk  of  the  park  commission  and  in 
the  offices  of  the  city  clerk  and  city  engineer  before  the  same  shall  become 
public  playgrounds  under  control  of  the  playground  commission. 

Section  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect  upon  its  passage.  [Approved 
February  26,  1913. 

SCHOOL  COMMITTEE  OF  BEVERLY  TO  APPOINT  SCHOOL 

PHYSICIANS. 

Chapter  208. 

An  Act  to  authorize  the  school  committee  of  the  city  of  beverly 
to  appoint  the  school  physicians  for  that  city. 

Section  1.  So  much  of  chapter  five  hundred  and  two  of  the  acts  of 
the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  six  and  of  acts  in  amendment  thereof  as 
provide  that  in  cities  the  board  of  health  shall  appoint  school  physicians 
shall  not  apply  to  the  city  of  Beverly,  and  the  school  physician  or  physi- 
cians in  that  city  shall  be  appointed  by  the  school  committee. 

Section  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect  upon  its  acceptance  by  the  city 
council  of  the  city  of  Beverly,  with  the  approval  of  the  mayor.  [Approved 
February  28,  1918. 

INDEPENDENT   AGRICULTURAL   SCHOOL   IN   BOSTON. 

Chapter  337. 

An  Act  to  provide  for  an  independent  agricultural  school  within 

the  city  of  boston. 

Section  1.  The  school  committee  of  the  city  of  Boston  may  estab- 
lish and  maintain  an  independent  agricultural  school,  as  defined  by 
chapter  four  hundred  and  seventy-one  of  the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen 


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hundred  and  eleven,  and  under  the  authority  of  and  subject  to  the  pro- 
visions of  said  act  and  acts  in  amendment  thereof  and  in  addition  thereto. 

Section  2.  For  the  purpose  of  carrying  out  the  provisions  of  this  act, 
the  board  of  schoolhouse  commissioners  of  the  city  of  Boston  may  cause 
to  be  taken  for  the  city,  in  the  same  manner  in  which  land  is  taken  for 
schoolhouses,  land  in  that  city  not  exceeding  fifty  acres,  approved  by  the 
school  committee  of  the  city,  and  shall  build  and  furnish  such  buildings 
as  are  approved  by  the  school  committee:  provided,  that  land  having  a 
building  thereon  may  be  purchased  at  such  price  as  the  school  committee, 
the  schoolhouse  commissioners  and  the  mayor  may  determine. 

Section  3.  All  acts  and  parts  of  acts  inconsistent  herewith  are  hereby 
repealed. 

Section  4.  This  act  shall  take  effect  upon  its  passage.  [Approved 
March  21,  1913. 

HOLYOKE  TO  INCUR  INDEBTEDNESS  FOR  BUILDINGS. 

Chapter  362. 

An  Act  to  authorize  the  city  of  holyoke  to  incur  indebtedness 
for  school  and  police  buildings. 

Section  1.  For  the  purpose  of  acquiring  land  for  and  constructing 
and  equipping  school  and  police  buildings,  the  city  of  Holyoke  is  hereby 
authorized  to  borrow  the  sum  of  three  hundred  thousand  dollars,  and  may 
from  time  to  time  issue  bonds  or  notes  therefor,  and  the  same  shall  not  be 
reckoned  in  determining  the  statutory  limit  of  indebtedness  of  the  city. 
Such  bonds  or  notes  shall  bear  on  their  face  the  words,  Holyoke  School 
and  Police  Building  Loan,  Act  of  1913,  shall  be  payable  in  such  annual 
payments,  beginning  not  more  than  one  year  after  the  respective  dates 
thereof,  as  will  extinguish  the  loan  within  twenty  years  from  the  date 
thereof;  and  the  amount  of  such  annual  payment  of  any  loan  in  any  year 
shall  not  be  less  than  the  amount  of  the  principal  of  said  loan  payable  in 
any  subsequent  year.  Each  authorized  issue  of  bonds  or  notes  shall  con- 
stitute a  separate  loan.  Said  bonds  or  notes  shall  bear  interest  at  a  rate 
not  exceeding  four  and  one  half  per  cent  per  annum,  payable  semi-annually ; 
shall  be  signed  by  the  mayor  and  treasurer  of  the  city  and  countersigned 
by  the  auditor.  The  city  may  sell  such  bonds  or  notes  at  public  or  private 
sale,  upon  such  terms  and  conditions  as  it  may  deem  proper,  but  they  shall 
not  be  sold  for  less  than  their  par  value,  and  the  proceeds  shall  not  be  used 
for  any  purpose  other  than  that  herein  specified. 

Section  2.  The  said  city  shall,  at  the  time  of  authorizing  said  loan  or 
loans,  provide  for  the  payment  thereof  in  accordance  with  section  one  of 
this  act;  and  when  a  vote  to  that  effect  has  been  passed,  a  sum  sufficient 
to  pay  the  interest  as  it  accrues  on  the  bonds  or  notes  issued  as  aforesaid 
by  the  city,  and  to  make  such  payments  on  the  principal  as  may  be  required 
under  the  provisions  of  this  act,  shall  without  further  vote  be  assessed  by 
the  assessors  of  the  city  annually  thereafter,  in  the  same  manner  in  which 


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other  taxes  are  assessed,  until  the  debt  incurred  by  said  loan  or  loans  is 
extinguished. 

Section  3.  This  act  shall  take  effect  upon  its  passage.  [Approved 
March  26,  1913. 

HIGH   SCHOOL   OF   COMMERCE   IN   THE    CITY   OF   BOSTON. 

Chapter  363. 

An  Act  to  provide  for  a  building  for  the  high  school  of  commerce 

in  the  city  of  boston. 

Section  1.  Chapter  four  hundred  and  forty-six  of  the  acts  of  the  year 
nineteen  hundred  and  nine  is  hereby  amended  by  striking  out  section  one 
and  inserting  in  place  thereof  the  following:  —  Section  1.  The  board  of 
schoolhouse  commissioners  of  the  city  of  Boston  may  cause  to  be  taken 
for  the  city  in  the  manner  provided  for  the  taking  of  land  for  schoolhouses, 
land  for  a  building  to  be  occupied  by  the  High  School  of  Commerce,  and 
said  board  shall  erect  and  furnish  said  building  as  approved  by  the  school 
committee :  provided,  however,  that  the  building  may  be  erected  within  the 
limits  of  the  Back  Bay  Fens,  if  the  mayor  and  the  city  council  of  Boston 
shall  so  determine. 

Section  2.  Section  two  of  said  chapter  four  hundred  and  forty-six  is 
hereby  amended  by  inserting  after  the  word  "eleven",  in  the  seventh  line, 
the  words :  —  and  one  hundred  thousand  dollars  in  the  year  nineteen  hun- 
dred and  thirteen,  —  so  as  to  read  as  follows:  —  Section  2.  The  school 
committee  of  said  city,  to  meet  the  expenses  incurred  under  this  act,  may 
appropriate  a  sum  not  exceeding  fifty  thousand  dollars  in  the  year  nineteen 
hundred  and  nine,  three  hundred  thousand  dollars  in  the  year  nineteen 
hundred  and  ten,  and  two  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars  in  the  year 
nineteen  hundred  and  eleven,  and  one  hundred  thousand  dollars  in  the 
year  nineteen  hundred  and  thirteen.  The  amount  which  the  school  com- 
mittee may  thus  appropriate  in  any  single  year  shall  be  reckoned  in 
determining  the  statutory  limit  of  indebtedness  of  the  city  for  that  year. 
The  treasurer  of  the  city  shall  issue  and  sell  negotiable  bonds  of  the  city 
to  such  amount  as  shall  be  determined  by  the  school  committee  within  the 
powers  conferred  by  this  act.  Said  bonds  shall  be  payable  in  a  period  of 
years  not  exceeding  twenty,  and  shall  bear  interest  at  a  rate  not  exceeding 
four  per  cent  per  annum.  The  city  may,  at  the  discretion  of  the  mayor, 
issue  said  bonds  upon  the  serial  payment  plan,  instead  of  establishing  a 
sinking  fund  for  the  retirement  thereof.  Such  plan,  if  adopted,  shall 
provide  for  the  issue  of  bonds  or  scrip  to  be  paid  serially  in  such  amounts 
and  at  such  times  as  shall  be  determined  by  the  mayor;  the  bond  last 
payable  to  become  clue  at  a  date  not  later  than  that  on  which  the  whole 
seiies  of  bonds  would  have  matured  if  they  had  been  issued  under  the  sink- 
ing fund  method.  The  orders  of  the  school  committee  determining  the 
amount  of  said  bonds  which  the  city  treasurer  is  to  issue  shall  be  presented 
to  the  mayor  for  his  approval  or  disapproval,  and  the  same  proceedings 


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shall  be  had  in  respect  thereto  as  are  now  prescribed  by  law  in  regard  to 
other  orders  of  the  school  committee  involving  the  expenditure  of  money. 
The  proceeds  of  said  bonds  shall  be  expended  by  the  board  of  schoolhouse 
commissioners  of  the  city  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  this  act  and 
of  chapter  four  hundred  and  seventy-three  of  the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen 
hundred  and  one  and  of  any  amendments  thereof. 

Section  3.  Section  three  of  said  chapter  four  hundred  and  forty-six  of 
the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  nine  is  hereby  amended  by 
striking  out  in  the  first,  second  and  third  lines  of  said  section  the  following 
"of  the  estate  on  Mason  Street  in  said  city  now  occupied  by  the  school 
committee  for  office  and  other  purposes  and",  so  as  to  read  as  follows:  — 
Section  3.  The  proceeds  of  the  sale  of  the  Winthrop  school  estate  on 
Tremont  street  shall  be  applied  toward  the  cost  of  the  land  and  building 
authorized  by  this  act,  and  the  amount  of  bonds  which  may  be  issued  here- 
under shall  be  reduced  by  an  amount  equivalent  to  the  net  proceeds  of 
such  sale :  provided,  that  if  such  sale  shall  not  be  completed  until  after  the 
issue  of  some  or  all  of  the  bonds  authorized  hereby,  then  the  net  proceeds 
of  such  sale,  less  any  amount  employed  in  reduction  of  the  amount  of 
bonds  thereafter  to  be  issued  as  above  provided,  shall  be  paid  to  the  board 
of  sinking  fund  commissioners  and  applied  to  the  retirement  or  redemption 
of  the  bonds  authorized  hereby. 

Section  4.  Chapter  five  hundred  and  forty  of  the  acts  of  the  year  nine- 
teen hundred  and  eleven  is  hereby  repealed. 

Section  5.  Sections  one  and  three  of  this  act  shall  take  effect  upon 
its  passage,  and  section  two  shall  take  effect  if  approved  within  the  calen- 
dar year  nineteen  hundred  and  thirteen  by  the  mayor  and  by  the  city 
council  of  the  city  of  Boston.     [Approved  March  26,  1913. 


BROCKTON  TO  INCUR  INDEBTEDNESS  FOR  SCHOOL  PURPOSES. 

Chapter  379. 

An  Act  to  authorize  the  city  of  brockton  to  incur  indebtedness 

for  school  purposes. 

Section  1.  For  the  purpose  of  acquiring  land  and  erecting  thereon  a 
building  to  be  used  as  a  high  school,  the  city  of  Brockton  is  hereby 
authorized  to  borrow  the  sum  of  three  hundred  thousand  dollars,  and 
may  from  time  to  time  issue  bonds  or  notes  therefor,  payable  at  periods 
not  exceeding  twenty  years  from  their  respective  dates  of  issue,  and  the 
same  shall  not  be  reckoned  in  determining  the  statutory  limit  of  indebt- 
edness of  the  city.  Such  bonds  or  notes  shall  be  signed  by  the  treasurer 
and  countersigned  by  the  mayor  of  the  city;  shall  be  denominated  on 
the  face  thereof,  Brockton  High  School  Loan,  Act  of  1913,  and  shall  bear 
interest  at  a  rate  not  exceeding  four  and  one  half  per  cent  per  annum, 
payable  semi-annually.  The  city  may  sell  the  said  securities  at  public 
or  private  sale,  upon  such  terms  and  conditions  as  it  may  deem  proper: 


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but  they  shall  not  be  sold  for  less  than  their  par  value,  and  the  proceeds 
shall  be  used  only  for  the  purpose  herein  specified. 

Section  2.  The  said  city  shall,  at  the  time  of  making  the  said  loan, 
provide  for  the  payment  thereof  in  such  annual  payments,  beginning 
not  more  than  one  year  after  the  date  of  each  respective  issue  of  such 
bonds  or  notes,  as  will  extinguish  the  same  within  the  time  prescribed 
by  this  act;  and  the  amount  of  such  annual  payment  of  any  loan  in  any 
year  shall  not  be  less  than  the  amount  of  the  principal  of  said  loan  pay- 
able in  any  subsequent  year.  When  a  vote  to  the  effect  aforesaid  has 
been  passed,  a  sum  sufficient  to  pay  the  interest  as  it  accrues  on  the  bonds 
or  notes  issued  as  aforesaid,  and  to  make  such  payments  on  the  principal 
as  may  be  required  under  the  provisions  of  this  act  shall,  without  further 
vote,  be  assessed  by  the  assessors  of  the  city  in  each  year  thereafter,  in 
the  same  manner  in  which  other  taxes  are  assessed,  until  the  debt  incurred 
by  said  loan  or  loans  is  extinguished. 

Section  3.  This  act  shall  take  effect  upon  its  passage.  [Approved 
March  28,  1913. 

BOSTON  SCHOOL  COMMITTEE  MAY  ESTABLISH  FREE  EMPLOY- 
MENT  OFFICE   FOR  MINORS. 

Chapter  389. 

An  Act  to  provide  for  the  establishment  and  maintenance  of  a 
free  employment  office  for  minors  of  the  city  of  boston  by 
the  school  committee  of  said  city. 

Section  1.  There  may  be  established  and  maintained  by  the  school 
committee  of  the  city  of  Boston  an  employment  office  for  registering 
applications  of  minors  residing  in  the  city  of  Boston  who  seek  employ- 
ment, and  of  those  who  desire  to  employ  such  minors. 

Section  2.  The  school  committee  shall  establish  regulations  respect- 
ing the  conduct  of  the  office  and  shall  take  such  action  as  the  committee 
deems  best  to  promote  the  purposes  of  an  employment  office  for  minors, 
and  to  bring  together  such  minors  seeking  employment  and  those  desiring 
to  employ  them. 

Section  3.  No  fees,  direct  or  indirect,  shall  be  charged  to  or  accepted 
from  applicants  for  employment  who  apply  at  the  office  established  here- 
under, and  the  expense  of  maintaining  the  same  shall  be  charged  to  the 
appropriation  for  the  support  of  schools  in  the  city  of  Boston. 

Section  4.  This  act  shall  take  effect  upon  its  passage.  [Approved 
March  28,  1913. 


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BROCKTON  MAY  MAINTAIN  DENTAL  CLINIC  FOR  SCHOOL 
CHILDREN. 

Chapter  400. 

An  Act  to  authorize  the  city  of  brockton  to  establish  and  main- 
tain  A   DENTAL   CLINIC   FOR   THE   SCHOOL  CHILDREN   OF  THAT  CITY. 

Section  1.  The  city  of  Brockton  is  hereby  authorized  to  appropriate 
annually,  beginning  with  the  current  year,  a  sum  not  exceeding  five  thou- 
sand dollars,  to  be  expended  by  the  school  committee  for  the  establish- 
ment and  maintenance  of  a  dental  clinic  for  school  children  in  the  said 
city,  upon  such  terms  and  conditions  and  under  such  regulations  as  the 
school  committee  shall  from  time  to  time  prescribe. 

Section  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect  upon  its  passage.  [Approved 
March  28T  1913. 

FRAMINGHAM,  ISSUE  OF  CERTAIN  SCHOOL  LOAN  BONDS. 

Chapter  506. 

An  Act  to  ratify  the  issue  of  certain  school  loan  bonds  of  the 

town  of  framingham. 

Section  1.  The  issue  of  bonds  by  the  town  of  Framingham,  pursu- 
ant to  the  provisions  of  chapter  sixty-one  of  the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen 
hundred  and  eleven,  to  the  amount  of  sixty-five  thousand  dollars,  under 
votes  of  the  town  taken  August  twenty-eighth,  nineteen  hundred  and 
twelve,  the  said  bonds  being  designated  as  Framingham  Grade  School 
Loan,  Act  of  1911,  and  being  for  one  thousand  dollars  each  and  payable 
in  the  order  of  their  numbers,  four  on  the  sixteenth  day  of  September  of 
each  year  from  nineteen  hundred  and  thirteen  to  nineteen  hundred  and 
seventeen,  both  inclusive,  and  three  on  the  sixteenth  day  of  September 
of  each  year  from  nineteen  hundred  and  eighteen  to  nineteen  hundred 
and  thirty-two,  both  inclusive,  is  hereby  authorized  and  declared  valid. 

Section  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect  upon  its  passage.  [Approved 
April  21,  1913. 

TAUNTON  MAY   BORROW  MONEY   FOR   SCHOOL  PURPOSES. 

Chapter  512. 

An  Act  to  authorize  the  city  of  taunton  to  borrow  money  for 

school  purposes. 

Section  1.  The  city  of  Taunton,  for  the  purpose  of  constructing  and 
equipping,  together  with  other  expenses  incident  thereto,  a  schoolhousc 
on  Monroe  street  in  that  city,  may  issue  from  time  to  time  notes  or  bonds 
to  an  amount  not  exceeding  one  hundred  thousand  dollars,  and  the  same 
shall  not  be  reckoned  in  determining  the  statutory  limit  of  indebtedness 
of  the  city.     Such  notes  or  bonds  shall  bear  on  their  face  the  words, 


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Taunton  School  Loan,  Act  of  1913,  shall  be  payable  by  such  annual  pay- 
ments, beginning  not  more  than  one  year  after  the  date  thereof,  as  will 
extinguish  each  loan  within  twenty  years  from  its  date;  and  the  amount 
of  such  annual  payment  of  any  loan  in  any  year  shall  not  be  less  than  the 
amount  of  the  principal  of  said  loan  payable  in  any  subsequent  year. 
Each  authorized  issue  of  bonds  or  notes  shall  constitute  a  separate  loan. 
Said  bonds  or  notes  shall  bear  interest  at  a  rate  not  exceeding  four  and 
one  half  per  cent  per  annum,  payable  semi-annually;  and  shall  be  signed 
by  the  treasurer  of  the  city  and  countersigned  by  the  mayor  and  a  ma- 
jority of  the  municipal  council.  The  city  may  sell  the  said  securities  at 
public  or  private  sale,  upon  such  terms  and  conditions  as  it  may  deem 
proper,  but  they  shall  not  be  sold  for  less  than  their  par  value,  and  the 
proceeds  shall  be  used  only  for  the  purpose  herein  specified. 

Section  2.  Said  city  shall,  at  the  time  of  authorizing  said  loan  or 
loans,  provide  for  the  payment  thereof  in  accordance  with  section  one 
of  this  act;  and  when  a  vote  to  that  effect  has  been  passed,  a  sum  which 
■will  be  sufficient  to  pay  the  interest  as  it  accrues  on  the  bonds  or  notes 
issued  as  aforesaid  by  the  city,  and  to  make  such  payments  on  the  prin- 
cipal as  may  be  required  under  the  provisions  of  this  act,  shall,  without 
further  vote,  be  assessed  by  the  assessors  of  the  city  annually  thereafter, 
in  the  same  manner  in  which  other  taxes  are  assessed,  until  the  debt 
incurred  by  said  loan  or  loans  is  extinguished. 

Section  3.  This  act  shall  take  effect  upon  its  passage.  [Approved 
April  21,  1913. 

CHELSEA   SCHOOL   COMMITTEE. 

Chapter  583. 

An  Act  kelative  to  the  park  commissioners  and  the  school  com- 
mittee  OF  THE   CITY   OF   CHELSEA. 

Section  2.  Section  sixty-six  of  Part  II  of  said  chapter  six  hundred 
and  eighty  is  hereby  amended  by  striking  out  the  words  "pertaining 
thereto",  in  the  second  line,  and  inserting  in  place  thereof  the  words:  — 
used  therein,  —  so  as  to  read  as  follows:  —  Section  66.  The  manage- 
ment and  control  of  the  public  schools  of  the  city  and  of  the  property 
used  therein  shall  be  vested  in  the  school  committee,  consisting  of  the 
mayor,  ex  officio,  and  ten  other  members  elected  in  accordance  with  the 
provisions  of  this  act. 

Section  3.  This  act  shall  take  effect  upon  its  passage.  [Approved 
May  2,  1913. 


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WATERTOWN  MAY  BORROW  MONEY  FOR  SCHOOL  PURPOSES. 

Chapter  588. 

An  Act  to  authorize  the  town  of  watertown  to  borrow  money 

for  school  purposes. 

Section  1.  The  town  of  Watertown,  for  the  purpose  of  constructing 
and  equipping  a  new  schoolhouse  and  for  purchasing  or  otherwise  acquir- 
ing a  site  and  approaches  for  the  same,  to  be  located  on  the  southerly  side 
of  Charles  river,  may  issue  from  time  to  time  bonds  or  notes  to  an  amount 
not  exceeding  in  the  aggregate  one  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars, 
and  the  securities  so  issued  shall  not  be  reckoned  in  determining  the 
statutory  limit  of  indebtedness  of  the  town.  Such  bonds  or  notes  shall 
bear  on  their  face  the  words,  Watertown  School  Loan,  Act  of  1913,  and 
shall  be  payable  by  such  annual  payments,  beginning  not  more  than  one 
year  after  the  date  of  each  loan,  as  will  extinguish  each  loan  within  twenty 
years  from  its  date;  and  the  amount  of  such  annual  payment  of  any  loan 
in  any  year  shall  not  be  less  than  the  amount  of  the  principal  of  the  loan 
payable  in  any  subsequent  year.  Each  authorized  issue  of  bonds  or 
notes  shall  constitute  a  separate  loan.  Said  bonds  or  notes  shall  bear 
interest  at  a  rate  not  exceeding  four  and  one  half  per  cent  per  annum, 
payable  semi-annually;  and  shall  be  signed  by  the  treasurer  of  the  town, 
and  countersigned  by  a  majority  of  the  selectmen.  The  town  may  sell 
the  said  bonds  or  notes  at  public  or  private  sale,  but  they  shall  not  be 
sold  for  less  than  their  par  value,  and  the  proceeds  shall  be  used  only  for 
the  purposes  specified  in  this  act. 

Section  2.  Said  town  shall,  at  the  time  of  authorizing  said  loan  or 
loans,  provide  for  the  payment  thereof  in  accordance  with  the  provisions 
of  section  one  of  this  act;  and  when  a  vote  to  that  effect  has  been  passed, 
a  sum  which  will  be  sufficient  to  pay  the  interest  as  it  accrues  on  the  bonds 
or  notes  issued  as  aforesaid,  and  to  make  such  payments  on  the  principal 
as  may  be  required  under  the  provisions  of  this  act,  shall,  without  further 
vote,  be  assessed  by  the  assessors  of  the  town  annually  thereafter,  in  the 
same  manner  in  which  other  taxes  are  assessed,  until  the  debt  incurred 
by  said  loan  or  loans  is  extinguished. 

Section  3.  This  act  shall  take  effect  upon  its  passage.  {Approved 
May  2,  1913. 


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BOSTON,  APPROPRIATIONS  FOR  SUPPORT  OF  SCHOOLS,  NEW 
SCHOOL   BUILDINGS,   ETC. 

Chapter  615. 

An  Act  relative  to  appropriations  for  the  support  of  public 
schools,  for  new  school  buildings  and  for  repairs  and  altera- 
tions of  school  buildings  in  the  city  of  boston. 

Section  1.  Section  one  of  chapter  four  hundred  of  the  acts  of  the 
year  eighteen  hundred  and  ninety-eight,  as  amended  by  section  one  of 
chapter  four  hundred  and  forty-eight  of  the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen 
hundred  and  one,  by  section  one  of  chapter  one  hundred  and  seventj'  of 
the  acts  of  the  jrear  nineteen  hundred  and  three,  by  section  one  of  chapter 
two  hundred  and  five  of  the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  six, 
by  section  one  of  chapter  three  hundred  and  eighty-eight  of  the  acts  of 
the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  nine,  and  by  section  one  of  chapter  seven 
hundred  and  eight  of  the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  eleven, 
is  hereby  further  amended  by  striking  out  the  said  section  and  inserting 
in  place  thereof  the  following :  —  Section  1 .  The  school  committee  of 
the  city  of  Boston,  in  each  year,  by  vote  of  four  fifths  of  all  its  members, 
taken  by  yeas  and  nays,  may  make  an  appropriation  in  one  sum  for  con- 
structing and  furnishing  new  school  buildings,  including  the  taking  of 
land  therefor,  and  for  school  yards,  and  the  preparing  of  school  yards 
for  use,  and  may  also  make  an  appropriation  in  one  sum  for  repairs  and 
alterations  of  school  buildings,  and  may  make  such  other  appropriations 
by  items  for  the  support  of  the  public  schools  as  it  deems  necessary.  The 
total  amount  thus  to  be  appropriated  for  the  public  schools  of  the  city 
and  their  support,  in  addition  to  the  money  which  may  be  given  therefor, 
the  income  collected,  the  balance  of  appropriations  of  preceding  years, 
and  the  money  which  may  be  authorized  by  acts  of  the  general  court 
passed  prior  to  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  thirteen  and  not  repealed, 
shall  not  exceed  the  following  sums  for  the  periods  specified,  to  wit :  — 
for  the  financial  year  ending  on  the  thirty-first  day  of  January,  nineteen 
hundred  and  fourteen,  three  dollars  and  ninety-five  cents,  for  the  finan- 
cial year  ending  on  the  thirty-first  day  of  Januarj^,  nineteen  hundred  and 
fifteen,  and  for  each  financial  year  thereafter,  four  dollars  and  five  cents 
upon  each  one  thousand  dollars  of  the  valuation  on  which  the  appro- 
priations of  the  city  council  are  based;  and  the  amounts  which  may  so 
be  raised  shall  be  appropriated  by  the  school  committee  as  aforesaid,  and 
shall  be  a  part  of  and  be  met  by  taxes  within  the  tax  limit;  and  of  said 
amounts  not  more  than  thirty  cents  upon  every  such  one  thousand  dol- 
lars shall  be  appropriated  solely  for  new  school  buildings,  lands,  yards 
and  furnishings  as  aforesaid,  and  not  more  than  thirty-five  cents  upon 
every  such  one  thousand  dollars  shall  be  appropriated  solely  for  repairs 
and  alterations  of  school  buildings:  provided,  however,  that  if  of  said 
amounts  less  than  thirty  cents  upon  every  such  one  thousand  dollars 


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shall  be  appropriated  solely  for  new  school  buildings,  hinds,  yards  and 
furnishings  as  aforesaid,  the  balance  remaining  of  such  appropriation  for 
new  school  buildings,  lands,  yards  and  furnishings  shall  be  certified  by 
the  school  committee  to  the  mayor  and  shall  be  added  to  the  amount 
upon  each  one  thousand  dollars  of  the  valuation  on  which  the  appropria- 
tions of  the  city  council  are  based  and  may  be  appropriated  for  other 
than  school  purposes. 

Section  2.    This  act  shall  take  effect  upon  its  passage.    [Apja 
May  8,  1913. 

MASSACHUSETTS  COLLEGE   OF  PHARMACY. 

Chapter  Gis. 
An  Act  relative  to  the  Massachusetts  college  of  pharmacy. 

Section  1.  Section  one  of  chapter  ninety-three  of  the  acts  of  the 
year  eighteen  hundred  and  fifty-two,  as  amended  by  chapter  twenty-five 
of  the  acts  of  the  year  eighteen  hundred  and  seventy-six,  is  hereby  fur- 
ther amended  by  striking  out  the  words  "by  public  lectures",  in  the 
eleventh  and  twelfth  lines,  —  and  by  striking  out  the  word  "twenty", 
in  the  thirteenth  line,  and  inserting  in  place  thereof  the  words :  —  six 
hundred,  —  so  as  to  read  as  follows:  —  Section  1.  Thomas  Farrington, 
Joseph  Burnett,  George  S.  Jones,  and  all  such  persons  as  are  now  members 
of  an  association  known  as  the  "Massachusetts  College  of  Pharmacy", 
or  shall  hereafter  become  members  of  the  same,  are  hereby  constituted  a 
corporation  and  body  politic  in  law  and  in  fact,  by  the  name  of  the  "  Massa- 
chusetts College  of  Pharmacy",  for  the  purpose  of  cultivating,  improving, 
and  making  known  the  principles  of  pharmacy,  its  collateral  branches  of 
science,  and  the  best  modes  of  preparing  medicines  and  their  compounds, 
and  of  giving  instruction  in  the  same;  and  may  hold  real  and  personal 
estate  to  an  amount  not  exceeding  six  hundred  thousand  dollars. 

Section  2.  The  said  chapter  ninety-three  of  the  acts  of  the  year  eight- 
een hundred  and  fifty-two,  as  amended  by  chapter  twenty-five  of  the  acts 
of  the  year  eighteen  hundred  and  seventy-six,  by  chapter  fifteen  of  the 
acts  of  the  year  eighteen  hundred  and  eighty-one,  and  by  chapter  sevent  v- 
seven  of  the  acts  of  the  year  eighteen  hundred  and  eighty-eight,  is  hereby 
further  amended  by  striking  out  all  after  section  one  of  the  said  act  and 
inserting  in  place  thereof  the  following  sections:  —  Section  2.  The  said 
college  may  establish  by-laws  and  rules  for  its  government  and  regula- 
tion, and  for  the  preservation  and  application  of  the  funds  thereof,  not 
repugnant  to  the  constitution  and  laws  of  the  United  States  or  of  the 
commonwealth  of  Massachusetts,  and  shall  have  power  to  erect  build- 
ings for  its  use,  and  to  constitute  a  faculty  or  learned  body  to  consist  of 
such  head  or  heads,  and  such  number  of  professors  in  chemistry,  phar- 
macy, materia  medica  and  the  collateral  sciences,  as  it  may  judge  neces- 
sary, and,  whenever  it  shall  see  fit,  to  remove  them  or  any  of  them,  and 
to  appoint  others  in  their  stead;   and  to  do  all  acts  necessary  or  proper 


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for  the  establishment  and  maintenance  of  said  college   and  faculty. 
Section  3.    There  shall  be  a  board  of  trustees  of  fifteen  members,  chosen 
from  the  members  of  the  college  corporation  and  elected  as  follows:   At 
each  annual  meeting,  there  shall  be  elected  by  ballot  three  trustees,  each 
to  serve  for  the  term  of  five  years,  or  until  his  successor  is  chosen;   and 
any  vacancy  occurring  in  the  board  of  trustees  shall  be  filled  at  the  next 
meeting  of  the  college,  or  at  a  special  meeting  duly  called  for  the  purpose. 
The  board  of  trustees  shall  convene  each  year  within  the  ten  days  follow- 
ing the  annual  meeting  of  said  college,  and  shall  elect  by  ballot,  from  their 
number,  as  officers  of  the  college,  a  president,  two  vice  presidents,  a 
secretary,  a  treasurer  and  an  auditor,  whose  respective  duties  may  be 
assigned  by  the  by-laws,  and  who  shall  hold  their  offices  until  their  suc- 
cessors are  chosen.    The  president  and  secretary  shall  be,  respectively, 
chairman  and  secretary  of  the  board  of  trustees.    The  said  board  shall 
appoint  such  administrative  officers,  teachers,  and  other  employees  as 
are  necessary  for  the  conduct  of  the  college,  and  may  make  such  rules 
and  regulations  and  do  such  other  things  for  the  support  and  government 
of  the  college  as  they  may  deem  proper,  and  shall  perform  such  duties 
as  are,  or  may  be,  from  time  to  time  committed  to  them  by  said  college; 
but  their  acts  shall  be  submitted  to  the  college  for  revision  at  each  stated 
meeting  of  the  college.    Trustees  and  other  officers  holding  office  when 
this  act  takes  effect  shall  continue  to  hold  their  respective  offices  during 
the  period  for  which  they  were  elected,  and  until  their  successors  are 
duly  chosen  in  accordance  with  this  act.    Section  J,.    There  shall  be  five 
trustees  of  funds  elected  as  follows :  —  At  each  annual  meeting  there  shall 
be  elected  by  ballot  from*  the  members  of  the  college  one  trustee  of  funds 
to  serve  for  the  term  of  five  years,  and  until  his  successor  is  chosen.    Any 
vacancy  occurring  among  the  trustees  of  funds  shall  be  filled  at  the  next 
stated  meeting  of  the  college  or  at  a  special  meeting  called  for  the  pur- 
pose.   The  trustees  of  funds,  under  the  direction  of  the  board  of  trustees, 
shall  have  the  care  and  investment  of  all  the  trust  and  other  permanent 
funds  of  the  college.    Section  5.    The  board  of  trustees  shall  have  power 
to  confer  degrees  in  pharmacy  upon  those  persons  who  shall  have  satis- 
fied the  requirements  for  graduation  adopted  by  the  board  and  approved 
by  the  college.    Section  6.    The  college  shall  have  the  right  to  issue 
scrip  stock,  execute  bonds,  mortgages,  and  conveyances,  and  to  sell  and 
convey  its  property,  whether  personal  or  real  estate,  books,  productions 
of  nature  or  art,  by  instruments  under  the  seal  of  the  college  and  signed 
by  its  president,  and  in  any  way  to  dispose  of  its  possessions  so  as  to  pro- 
mote pharmaceutical  education  and  the  mutual  advancement  of  its  mem- 
bers and  the  elevation  of  the  art  and  business  of  the  apothecary  and 
pharmacist  in  the  community.     Section  7.     If   the  annual  election  of 
officers  of  the  college,  members  of  the  board  of  trustees  or  trustees  of 
funds  shall  not  be  held  for  any  cause  on  the  day  fixed  therefor,  the  said 
corporation  shall  not  thereby  be  dissolved,  but  the  officers  and  trustees 
shall  continue  in  office  until  a  new  election.    Section  8.     The  annual 


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meeting  of  the  corporation  shall  be  held  on  the  first  Monday  in  June,  but 
the  corporation  may  by  by-law  change  the  date  of  its  annual  meeting. 
Section  9.  The  corporation  hereby  created  shall  have  all  the  powers  and 
privileges,  and  be  subject  to  all  the  duties,  restrictions  and  liabilities  con- 
tained in  all  general  laws  now  or  hereafter  in  force  relating  to  such  cor- 
porations, except  as  may  otherwise  be  provided  herein. 

Section  3.     This  act  shall  take  effect  upon  its  passage.     [Approved 
May  8,  1913. 

SOUTH  HADLEY  MAY  INCUR  INDEBTEDNESS  FOR  HIGH  SCHOOL 
BUILDING. 

Chapter  732. 

An  Act  to  authorize  the  town  of  south  hadley  to  incur  indebted- 
ness  FOR  A   TOWN   HALL   AND   HIGH   SCHOOL  BUILDING. 

Section  1.     The  town  of  South  Hadley,  for  the  purpose  of  construct- 
ing and  equipping  a  combined  town  hall  and  high  school  building  may 
issue  from  time  to  time  bonds  or  notes  of  the  town  to  an  amount  not 
exceeding  in  the  aggregate  seventy  thousand  dollars,  and  twenty  thou- 
sand dollars  of  the  securities  so  issued  shall  not  be  reckoned  in  determin- 
ing the  statutory  limit  of  indebtedness  of  the  town.     Such  bonds  or  notes 
shall  bear  on  their  face  the  words,  South  Hadley  Town  Hall  and  High 
School  Loan,  Act  of  1913;  Exempt  from  Taxation  in  Massachusetts,  and 
shall  be  payable  by  such  annual  payments,  beginning  not  more  than  one 
year  after  the  date  of  each  loan,  as  will  extinguish  each  loan  within  twenty 
years  from  its  date.     The  amount  of  such  annual  payment  of  any  loan 
in  any  year  shall  not  be  less  than  the  amount  of  the  principal  of  such 
loan  payable  in  any  subsequent  year.    Each  authorized  issue  of  bonds 
or  notes  shall  constitute  a  separate  loan.     Said  bonds  or  notes  shall  bear 
interest  at  a  rate  not  exceeding  five  per  cent  per  annum,  payable  semi- 
annually; and  shall  be  signed  by  the  treasurer  of  the  town,  and  counter- 
signed b}'  a  majority  of  the  selectmen.     The  town  may  sell  the  said  securi- 
ties at  public  or  private  sale,  but  they  shall  not  be  sold  for  less  than  their 
par  value,  and  the  proceeds  shall  be  used  only  for  the  purposes  specified 
in  this  act. 

Section  2.  Said  town  shall,  at  time  of  authorizing  said  loan  or  loans, 
provide  for  the  payment  thereof  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of 
section  one  of  this  act;  and  when  a  vote  to  that  effect  has  been  passed, 
a  sum  which  will  be  sufficient  to  pay  the  interest  as  it  accrues  on  the  bonds 
or  notes  issued  as  aforesaid  by  the  town,  and  to  make  such  payments  on 
the  principal  as  may  be  required  under  the  provisions  of  this  act,  shall, 
without  further  vote,  be  assessed  by  the  assessors  of  the  town  annually 
thereafter,  in  the  same  manner  in  which  other  taxes  are  assessed,  until 
the  debt  incurred  by  said  loan  or  loans  is  extinguished. 

Section  3.  The  vote  passed  by  said  town  at  a  meeting  held  May 
twelfth,  nineteen  hundred  and  thirteen,  to  borrow  a  sum  not  exceeding 


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seventy  thousand  dollars  for  the  purpose  of  erecting  a  town  hall  and 
high  school  building,  is  hereby  ratified  and  confirmed. 

Section  4.  This  act  shall  take  effect  upon  its  passage.  [Approved 
May  29,  1913. 

BROCKTON  MAY  TAKE  LAND  FOR  HIGH  SCHOOL  PURPOSES. 

Chapter  740. 

An  Act  to  authorize  the  city  of  brockton  to  take  land  for  high 

school  purposes. 

Section  1.  The  city  council  of  the  city  of  Brockton,  with  the  approval 
of  the  mayor,  may  by  a  majority  vote  of  each  branch  of  the  city  council, 
take  in  fee  for  the  purpose  of  erecting  a  high  school  building  thereon  a 
certain  parcel  of  land  with  the  buildings  thereon,  situated  in  Brockton 
and  bounded  as  follows:  on  the  north  by  land  owned  by  the  city  of  Brock- 
ton and  known  as  the  high  school  lot;  on  the  east  by  Warren  avenue;  on 
the  south  by  West  Elm  street;   and  on  the  west  by  Goddard  road. 

Section  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect  upon  its  passage.  [Approved 
June  4,  1913. 

CAMBRIDGE   SCHOOL   COMMITTEE. 

Chapter  804. 

An  Act  relative  to  the  school  committee  of  the  city  of  Cambridge. 

Section  1.  Section  thirty-one  of  chapter  three  hundred  and  sixty- 
four  of  the  acts  of  the  year  eighteen  hundred  and  ninety-one,  as  amended 
by  section  two  of  chapter  five  hundred  and  sixty-six  of  the  acts  of  the 
year  nineteen  hundred  and  seven,  and  by  section  one  of  chapter  three 
hundred  and  sixty-two  of  the  acts  of  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and 
eight,  and  by  section  one  of  chapter  three  hundred  and  ninety-five  of  the 
acts  of  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  nine,  is  hereby  further  amended  by 
striking  out  the  said  section  and  inserting  in  place  thereof  the  following: 
—  Section  31.  The  school  committee  and  overseers  of  the  poor  shall 
respectively  perform  all  those  duties  which  the  school  committee  and  over- 
seers of  the  poor  in  towns  are  required  by  law  to  perform.  The  school 
committee  shall  annually  appropriate  money  for  the  maintenance  of  the 
schools  and  school  buildings  and  for  the  salaries  of  all  teachers  and  other 
employees  including  janitors  of  school  buildings,  employed  by  them: 
provided,  however,  that  the  words  "maintenance  of  school  buildings"  shall 
not  include  the  restoration  of  a  school  building  when  damaged  or 
destroyed  by  fire,  explosion  or  other  unavoidable  casualty.  The  total 
amount  thus  to  be  appropriated  for  the  aforesaid  purposes  in  addition 
to  the  money  which  may  be  given  therefor,  the  income  collected,  the 
balance  of  appropriations  of  preceding  years,  and  the  money  which  may 
be  authorized  by  acts  of  the  general  court  passed  prior  to  the  year  nine- 


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teen  hundred  and  thirteen  and  not  repealed,  shall  not  exceed  the  follow- 
ing sums  for  the  period  specified:  —  For  the  financial  year  ending-  on  the 
thirty-first  day  of  March,  nineteen  hundred  and  fourteen,  five  dollars 
and  twenty-five  cents;  for  the  financial  year  ending  on  the  thirty-first 
day  of  March  nineteen  hundred  and  fifteen,  five  dollars  and  fifty  cents; 
for  the  financial  year  ending  on  the  thirty-first  day  of  March,  nineteen 
hundred  and  sixteen,  five  dollars  and  seventy-five  cents,  and  for  each 
financial  year  thereafter  six  dollars  on  each  one  thousand  dollars  of  tax- 
able property  of  the  city,  to  be  estimated  by  taking  the  average  amount 
of  taxable  property  during  the  three  preceding  years.  The  school  com- 
mittee shall  appoint  a  superintendent  of  schools  and  shall  elect  the  teach- 
ers of  the  public  schools  as  provided  by  section  thirty-two  of  chapter 
forty-two  of  the  Revised  Laws.  It  shall  approve  the  situation  and  plans 
of  all  school  buildings.  It  shall  have  entire  charge  of  the  buildings  used 
for  school  purposes  and  shall  have  authority  to  appoint  and  remove,  under 
the  laws  regulating  the  civil  service,  the  janitors  and  other  persons  em- 
ployed therein.  It  shall  have  entire  control  of  the  expenditure  of  moneys 
devoted  to  the  maintenance  of  schools.  The  overseers  of  the  poor  shall, 
annually  on  the  first  Monday  of  May,  meet  and  organize,  and  choose 
such  subordinate  officers  and  agents  as  they  may  deem  expedient,  and 
define  their  duties  and  fix  their  salaries;  but  no  member  of  the  board  shall 
be  eligible  to  be  chosen  by  the  board  to  any  position  of  emolument. 

Section  2.  The  additional  amounts  authorized  to  be  expended  by 
the  provisions  of  this  act  shall  be  expended  by  the  school  committee  for 
the  purpose  of  increasing  the  compensation  of  the  teachers  in  the  public 
schools  of  the  city. 

Section  3.  This  act  shall  not  be  operative  unless  accepted  by  a 
majority  of  the  voters  of  the  city  of  Cambridge  voting  thereon  at  the  next 
state  election.     [Approved  June  14,  1913. 


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PART    IV.  —  ADDITIONAL    LEGISLATION    OF    INTER- 
EST IN  PUBLIC  EDUCATION. 


ENCOURAGEMENT   OF   AGRICULTURE. 

Chapter  319. 

An  Act  to  provide  for  the  encouragement  of  agriculture  among 

children  and  youths. 

Section  1.  A  sum  not  exceeding  one  thousand  dollars  may  annually 
be  expended  by  the  state  board  of  agriculture  in  premiums  or  otherwise, 
as  the  board  shall  determine,  as  rewards  to  children  and  youths  under 
eighteen  years  of  age  for  the  purpose  of  stimulating  interest  and  activity 
in  agriculture.  The  board  shall  report  annually  to  the  legislature  the 
names  of  the  recipients  of  premiums  or  other  rewards  given  hereunder, 
and  the  amount  or  value  given  to  each. 

Section  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect  upon  its  passage.  [Approved 
March  21,  1913. 

EDUCATIONAL  WORK  FOR  THE  BENEFIT  OF  ALIENS. 

Chapter  668. 

An  Act  to  authorize  the  appointment  by  the  board  of  free  public 
library  commissioners  of  a  director  of  educational  work  for 

ALIENS. 

Section  1.  The  board  of  free  public  library  commissioners  may,  with 
the  consent  of  the  governor  and  council,  appoint  an  agent  or  secretary  to 
direct  educational  work  for  the  benefit  of  the  alien  population  of  the  com- 
monwealth, at  a  salary  of  such  amount,  not  exceeding  two  thousand 
dollars,  as  the  governor  and  council  may  approve.  The  said  agent  may 
at  any  time  be  removed  from  office  by  a  majority  vote  of  the  board.  In 
case  of  a  vacancy,  temporary  substitutes  may  be  engaged  on  terms  and 
conditions  approved  by  the  governor  and  council. 

Section  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect  upon  its  passage.  [Approved 
May  16,  1913. 


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COMMISSION  FOR  THE   BLIND  TO  MAKE   SPECIAL  REPORT. 

Chapter  97. 

Resolve  to  provide  for  a  report  on  the  condition  and  educati 
of  persons  with  seriously  defective  vision. 

Resolved,  That  the  Massachusetts  commission  for  the  blind  investigate 
the  condition  of  persons  in  this  commonwealth  with  seriouslv  defective 
vision,  who  are  not  now  provided  for  either  by  any  school  or  by  the 
Massachusetts  commission  for  the  blind.  The  commission  shall  consider 
how  the  condition  of  such  persons  may  be  improved  by  providing  them 
with  instruction  in  a  business  and  training  institute  for  persons  with 
defective  vision.  The  commission  shall  report  to  the  general  court  the 
result  of -its  investigation,  with  such  recommendations  for  legislation,  if 
any,  as  it  may  deem  expedient,  on  or  before  January  tenth,  in  the  year 
nineteen  hundred  and  fourteen.     [Approved  May  27,  1913. 


List  of  Subjects  of  Educational  Legislation 

of  1913. 


Part  I.    Acts  and  Resolves  conferring  Powers  and  Duties  on  the 
Board  of  Education:  — 
Collegiate  courses  in  normal  schools,  report  on, 
American  flag,  manual  for,       ..... 
Agriculture,  order  for  a  report  relative  to  the  teaching  of, 
Normal  school  sites,  report  on, 

Board  of  Education,  appointees  and  expenditures  of, 
City  of  Fitchburg  and  the  State  Normal  School, 


Part  II.     Acts  of  General  Import  to  the  Public  Schools:  — 
Employment  of  public  school  teachers, 
Nautical  Training  School,         .... 

Penalty  for  the  possession  of  obscene  prints,  etc., 
Annual  returns  of  school  statistics,  . 
Support  of  schools,  definition  of,       . 
Positions  for  school  teachers,  .... 

Promotion  of  usefulness  of  school  property, 
Transportation  of  pupils  to  high  schools, 
Cases  against  children,    ..... 

Attendance  of  illiterate  minors  on  evening  schools, 
Free  meals  for  school  children, 
Certain  political  rights  of  school  teachers, 
Construction  of  buildings,        .... 

School  attendance  and  employment  of  minors, 
Continuation  schools  and  courses  of  instruction  for 
Labor  of  minors,    ...... 

Retirement  system  for  public  school  teachers,    . 
Election  of  school  committees, 


working  children 


Part  III.     Special  Legislation  relating  to   Specific  Communities 

and  Institutions:  — 
Playgrounds  in  the  city  of  Worcester,        ..... 

School  committee  of  Beverly  to  appoint  school  physicians, 
Independent  agricultural  school  in  Boston,         .... 

Holyoke  to  incur  indebtedness  for  buildings,      .... 

High  school  of  commerce  in  the  city  of  Boston, 

Brockton  to  incur  indebtedness  for  school  purposes,  . 

Boston  school  committee  to  establish  free  employment  office  for  minors 

Brockton  to  maintain  dental  clinic  for  school  children, 

Framingham,  issue  of  certain  school  loan  bonds, 

Taunton  may  borrow  money  for  school  purposes, 

Chelsea  school  committee,        ....... 

Watertown  may  borrow  money  for  school  purposes,  . 

Boston,  appropriations  for  support  of  schools,  new  school  buildings 

and  for  repairs  and  alterations,    ...... 


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Massachusetts  College  of  Pharmacy,          ......  61 

South  Hadley  may  incur  indebtedness  for  a  high  school  building,       .  63 

Brockton  may  take  land  for  high  school  purposes,      ....  64 

Cambridge  school  committee,            .......  64 

Part  IV.    Additional  Legislation  of  Interest  in  Public  Education:  — 

Encouragement  of  agriculture,          .          .          .          .          .          .     -     .  66 

Educational  work  for  aliens,    ........  66 

Commission  for  the  Blind  to  make  special  report,       ....  67 


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